page_title: Fuday
hierarchical_section_title: Fuday
caption_attribution_description: An Caolas Fuideach Fuday (or Fuideagh, pronounced "Fujay") lies off the Eoligarry peninsula at the northern end of Barra, Outer Hebrides. The mile wide sound separating Fuday from Eoligarry is shallow and dotted with reefs and skerries. Cattle used to be swum across the sound for summer grazing. Beyond the flowering w:machair lies the beach Traigh na Reill and across the sound the hills of Eoligarry. It is nearly low water and some of the skerries are visible.
context_page_description: Fuday is an uninhabited island of about 232 hectares and is one of ten islands in the Sound of Barra, a Site of Community Importance for conservation in the Outer Hebrides of Scotland.
  It lies just east of Scurrival Point on Barra and west of Eriskay. Fuday is owned by the Scottish Government. Deserted since 1901, its peak population is recorded only as seven.
  It is still used for the summer grazing of cattle, and they used to be swum across the 1-mile-wide, but shallow, Caolas Fuideach to there from Eoligarry. When cattle were first introduced to the island, they were killed by dehydration. The crofters who left the cattle on the island failed to show the animals the location of the only drinkable source of water on the island, a loch far inland on the island. The cattle thus could not find drinking water and died of thirst.
context_section_description: Fuday (Scottish Gaelic: Fùideigh) is an uninhabited island of about 232 hectares (570 acres) and is  one of ten islands in the Sound of Barra, a Site of Community Importance for conservation in the Outer Hebrides of Scotland.
  It lies just east of Scurrival Point on Barra and west of Eriskay. Fuday is owned by the Scottish Government. Deserted since 1901, its peak population is recorded only as seven.
  It is still used for the summer grazing of cattle, and they used to be swum across the 1-mile-wide (2-kilometre), but shallow, Caolas Fuideach (strait) to there from Eoligarry. When cattle were first introduced to the island, they were killed by dehydration. The crofters who left the cattle on the island failed to show the animals the location of the only drinkable source of water on the island, a loch far inland on the island. The cattle thus could not find drinking water and died of thirst.
caption: An Caolas Fuideach
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