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Barra's main village is Castlebay (Bàgh a'Chaisteil) from which ferries sail to Oban on the Scottish mainland and Lochboisdale on South Uist. The town is home to Kisimul Castle, hereditary seat of the MacNeil's, and the Dualchas Heritage and Cultural Centre. Barra is also linked by a causeway to Eilean Bhatarsaigh ( Vatersay).
Other places of interest on the island the Black House Museum , a ruined church and museum at Cille-Bharra , an Iron Age broch at Dun Chuidhir,
Scurrival Point and beachA beach or strand is a geological formation consisting of loose rock particles such as sand, shingle, or cobble along the shoreline of a body of water. Components Some geologists consider a beach to be just this shoreline feature of deposited material, bues, most sandy. Cockle Strand is composed of shells and used at low tide as an airstrip. The beach is also a source of cockleAcanthocardia Americardia Cardium Cerastoderma Clinocardium Corculum Ctenocardia Dinocardium Discors Fragum Fulvia Laevicardium Lophocardiium Lyrocardium Lunulicardia Microcardium Nemocardium Papyridea Parvicardium Plagiocardium Ringicardium Trachycardiums.
The Barra flag, a white Nordic cross on a green field, has the same traditional colours as Fionbarr, the saint after whom Barra is named.
The Nordic cross is used in many island flags of Scotland where the Norse left their mark: South Uist, Orkney, Shetland and possibly an echo of one in the flag of Lewis.
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