Approaching Flodigarry we come through many rounded knolls and hollows and seaward at Crogan is the noted Loch Sianta (Loch of Enchantment); a small secluded loch whose waters were of old reputed to be the cure for all ills of man.

It is fed by nine springs and a well, close by. It is described by Martin Martin in 1703 as 'the most celebrated well in Skye'.

Such was the reputation of the waters, that people came from many parts of the mainland to partake of them. Invalids bathed in the loch and those who stirred its waters hung offerings of many forms on the branches from the coppice which grows beside it. No-one dared break a branch or fish a trout from its sacred water.


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