Finding the house

Take the main road round the island via the west side out of Castlebay, ie. turn left off the slip road up from the pier.

There are some traffic calming measures around the school, apart from which the road is otherwise fairly wide and straight. From here you can see the house on the other side of a small bay directly in front. The road bends to the right, goes over a small bridge near the bay and straightens out.

Take the turning left to Nask (Nasg). Up, over a cattle grid, the road then dips, the house is just before the bottom of this dip.

Look for two houses quite close to each other but on opposite sides of the road. You want the one on the right, a house with a grey slate roof and a front porch with a yellow door.

It's best to park on the opposite side of the road to the house.


Taigh Tangaval's position is indicated in the Google Map embedded above. You can also see the house via Google's Street View.

The image below is via Streetmap. You can try this direct link if you'd like to zoom and pan around Barra on an Ordnance Survey style map.



A postcode search on HS9 5XN should get you a fairly close result in most other mapping websites, or coordinates 56.957, -7.506 even better.

For some further fun, if you want to see a model of my house then it's in Google's "3D warehouse", where I've described it as - 'Taigh Tangaval' holiday house at 11B Bentangaval, Isle of Barra. If you have Google Earth then you might be interested to know that the model has been geographically positioned, and included in its 3D Buildings layer, so you have the option of zooming in and flying around to see the house and where it sits on the beautiful isle of Barra.