Qualla: Howmore https://qualla.com/howmore en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:21:24 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/g/f/4/v/howmore-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Howmore https://qualla.com/howmore Howmore: Introduction https://qualla.com/howmore/ Photo credit Gvdwiele, CC BY-SA 3.0. From the deck of a herring boat off the west coast of South Uist in 1858, the new church at Howmore would have appeared as a single small white shape against the green machair - exactly as its builders intended. They harled it in lime so it would catch the light. They placed it where fishermen could see it from a long way out. And inside, in a piece of architectural eccentricity that survives almost nowhere else in Scotland, they built the Communion table in the centre of the building rather than against the wall. The church is still there. So are the ruins of three older ones that stood before it.

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]]> Fri, 29 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/f/4/v/howmore-wp/gf4v-howmore-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Howmore: The Other Church Ruins https://qualla.com/howmore/ Photo credit Richard Wilson, Public domain. The most striking remains at Howmore are of Teampull Mor - the Large Church, also called St Mary's - of which only part of the east gable still stands. The building probably dates to the thirteenth century and served as the parish church of South Uist. The ruins are supposed to h...

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]]> Fri, 29 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/f/4/v/howmore-wp/gf4v-howmore-the-other-church-ruins.mp3 0:06 2 full Howmore: An Unusual Church for an Unusual Place https://qualla.com/howmore/ Photo credit eswales, CC BY-SA 2.0. At the Reformation, Howmore did something unusual: it turned Protestant, while 95 percent of South Uist remained Catholic. The Macdonalds had shielded the old faith on the rest of the island, but Howmore - perhaps because of the lingering authority of the medieval parish - went t...

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]]> Fri, 29 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/f/4/v/howmore-wp/gf4v-howmore-an-unusual-church-for-an-unusual-place.mp3 0:06 3 full Howmore: Thatched Roofs and the Hostel on the Hill https://qualla.com/howmore/ Photo credit Gvdwiele, CC BY-SA 3.0. Howmore is also home to one of the largest collections of thatched buildings left in Scotland - the traditional taigh dubh or blackhouse, low and dry-stone-walled with rounded thatch held down against the wind. One of them is a youth hostel, run by the Gatliff Hebridean Hostels T...

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]]> Fri, 29 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/f/4/v/howmore-wp/gf4v-howmore-thatched-roofs-and-the-hostel-on-the-hill.mp3 0:06 4 full Howmore: The Geese and the Forest That Wasn't https://qualla.com/howmore/ Photo credit Gordon Hatton, CC BY-SA 2.0. Three kilometres north of Howmore lies Loch Druidibeg, an important breeding ground for greylag geese and one of the last British strongholds of the corncrake, a small brown rail whose harsh nocturnal call once carried across every hayfield in Europe but which has retreated to a ...

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