Ghosts and spirits about in the North
Do you remember the tale told about the late Charlie Mackay that whenever anyone called late at night at No 3 West Shinness when the moon was shining brightly looking South towards Loch Shin, then the "Spirits" were sure to come out ! So beware of the ghosts of the Northern lands. That wee story reminds me of Backpacker's own tale of the likeness of the Creggan Inn to a lobster pot. Why you ask, because "The Creggan like a creel is very easy to enter, but very difficult to leave". In this year of 2006 in which the Clan Mackay Society marks the Bi-centenary of McKay's Society, which was founded in 1806 as a friendly society and out of which the Clan Mackay Society was later to evolve, we wonder how many Mackays will take the route to their ancestral homeland and stop by the Craggan Hotel in Melness. They maybe assured that the welcome will be as warm as it has always been in that hospitable place.