Gaasker Isle, Inverness-shire

Historical Description

G'AASKER ISLE, an isle, in the parish of Harris, county of Inverness. This is a large, green, but uninhabited island of the Hebrides, lying about four leagues north-west from Taransay. The name is derived from the Gaelic, signifying "the rock of geese", from the circumstance of its being frequented by countless numbers of wild-geese.