Sibhinis, Siobhanais ''Machair Marooned Offshore''/ ''Machair aig Muir'' http://www.snh.org.uk/publications/on-line/designatedareas/nnrs/monachisles/monach.asp or Shivinish.Haswell-Smith, Hamish. (2004) ''The Scottish Islands''. Edinburgh. Canongate. is one of the Monach Islands, lying between

Ceann Iar ''Disambiguation: "Ceann Iar" is a common Scottish placename meaning Western Headland'' Ceann Iar (Scottish Gaelic, Gaelic "Western Headland") is one of the Monach Isles/Heisgeir, to the west of North Uist in the Outer Hebrides. It is a slender i ...

and

Ceann Ear :''Disambiguation: "Ceann Ear" is a common Scottish placename meaning Eastern Headland'' Ceann Ear is the largest island in the Monach or Heisgeir group off North Uist in north west Scotland. It is in size and connected by sandbanks to Ceann Ia ...

. It is tidal, and connected at low tide to Ceann Iar by Fadhail Shibhinis, and to Ceann Ear by Faodhail Chinn Ear. It is at its highest point. It is said that it was at one time possible to walk all the way to Baleshare, and on to North Uist, away at low tide. In the 16th century, a large tidal wave was said to have washed this away. The island is about acres in extent and has five temples which have long remained abandoned on the island.Rick Livingstone’s Tables of the Islands of Scotland
(pdf) Argyll Yacht Charters. Retrieved 12 Dec 2011.

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Monach Islands Tidal islands of Scotland Uninhabited islands of the Outer Hebrides {{WesternIsles-geo-stub

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