Flodday ( gd, Flodaigh) is an uninhabited island in Loch Maddy,
North Uist in the
Outer Hebrides
The Outer Hebrides () or Western Isles ( gd, Na h-Eileanan Siar or or ("islands of the strangers"); sco, Waster Isles), sometimes known as the Long Isle/Long Island ( gd, An t-Eilean Fada, links=no), is an island chain off the west coast ...
of Scotland.
The area of the island is recorded as in Rick Livingstone's tables,
[ although it is not listed by Hamish Haswell-Smith in his tabulation of Scottish islands greater in size than . No reason for this is given and his area calculation presumably provided a figure smaller than this total.
Loch Maddy contains a bewildering profusion of islands and islets. To the north west lie the smaller island of Fearamas and the complex island of Cliasaigh Mor/Cliasaigh Beag. The entrance to the sea loch is to the south east where lie the waters of The Minch. The village of Lochmaddy is to the west on the far side of the loch.][ Flodday is separated from North Uist by the narrows of Caolas Loch Portain.]
Folklore and stories
The Carmichael Watson Project records a brief story concerning a great northern diver. Kenneth MacLean, a local merchant, describes his sighting of this bird, at Flodday in 1884. Although he was familiar with the species it was the sole occasion on which he had seen it in flight. He recorded that "the wings went rapidly and the bird seemed to exert himself greatly". The island is also referred to in the ''Notebook of Alexander Carmichael'', which contains material collected between October 1867 and December 1885.
The freshwater Loch na Beiste lies just beyond Caolas Loch Portain not far from the shore of North Uist. It was reputedly the haunt of a sea-cow."Water-horses and Water-bulls"
Electric Scotland. Retrieved 2 January 2015.
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References
{{Loch Maddy
Uist islands
Uninhabited islands of the Outer Hebrides