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Bragar ((スコットランド・ゲール語:Bràgar)) is a village on the west side of the Isle of Lewis in the Outer Hebrides, Scotland, 14 miles from the island's only town, Stornoway. Bragar is within the parish of Barvas,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Details of Bragar )〕 and is situated on the A858 between Carloway and Barvas.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=A858 )〕 Residents are mainly Gaelic speaking, and many work as crofters. The village's best-known landmark is a whalebone arch, made in 1921 from the jawbone of an 80 foot long blue whale which was beached on the shore the year before. Bragar also has a post office, a war memorial, and a school. ==History== A ruined Iron Age broch, Dun Bragar, stands in Loch an Dùin in South Bragar,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Lewis, Bragar, Loch An Duna )〕 80 metres from the road and connected to the lochside by a causeway. In the mid-20th century local people took away many of its stones, and the structure is no longer safe. The remains of a chapel, Teampall Eòin (the Temple of John the Baptist), built in the 15th century or earlier,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Lewis, Teampull Eoin )〕 lie inside a walled compound. This also contains a cemetery, now known as Cill Sgàire (Zechariah's cemetery) after Zechariah MacAulay who fell in a skirmish between the MacAulays of Uig and the Morrisons of Ness. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Bragar」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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