page_title: List of Outer Hebrides
section_title: Monach Isles
hierarchical_section_title: List of Outer Hebrides / Smaller islets and skerries / Monach Isles
caption_attribution_description: The lighthouses on Shillay, Monach Islands/Heisgeir. The old lighthouse became redundant in 1942; the newer light was installed in 1997.
context_page_description: The Outer Hebrides is a chain of more than 100 islands and small skerries located about 70 kilometres west of mainland Scotland. There are 15 inhabited islands in this archipelago, which is also known as the Western Isles and archaically as the Long Isle.
  Lewis and Harris is the largest island in Scotland and the third largest in the British Isles, after Great Britain and Ireland. It incorporates Lewis in the north and Harris in the south, both of which are frequently referred to as individual islands, although they are joined by a land border. The largest settlement in Lewis and in the Outer Hebrides is Stornoway.
  To the south across the Sound of Harris lie the Uists and Benbecula, which were joined by a series of causeways constructed between 1940 and 1960 to improve transport links. Further south are Barra and the smaller Barra Isles, whose southernmost extremity is Barra Head. There are other outliers with cultural links to the Outer Hebrides that are not part of the archipelago itself.
context_section_description: Ceann Ear: Heilleam, Stocaigh
  Ceann Iar: Deasgair, Raisgeir, Stromay
  Shillay: Eilean Siorruidh, Thusigeirean
  Sibhinis: None
caption: The lighthouse on Shillay
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