Lealt Falls
Waterfall Highland, Scotland
About Lealt Falls
The River Lealt cuts through a deep, tree-lined gorge on Skye's Trotternish Peninsula before dropping around 90 metres into the Sound of Raasay. A cantilevered viewing platform near the upper car park puts you directly above the gorge, with the upper falls below and the angular ridgeline of the Trotternish mountains framing the view west. The falls are most impressive after heavy rain, which is rarely in short supply here. Below, a steep path descends to the lower falls and a shingle beach, where the gorge opens out and you can see across the water to the mainland. What many people miss is the industrial past sitting right at the foot of the cliffs: the ruins of a diatomite-processing factory, part of an operation that ran from 1899 and used a narrow-gauge tramway to haul the mineral down from Loch Cuithir. The finished product was loaded onto boats in the Sound, most of it bound for a dynamite works in Ayrshire.
Location & details
- Category
- Waterfall
- Region
- Highland, Scotland, United Kingdom
- Coordinates
- 57.56500, -6.15577
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