Yours for £500,000! An uninhabited Scottish isle so beautiful and teeming with wildlife it will take your breath away. The only problem: the weather's so harsh and unpredictable, it's easy to get marooned for days By Jane Fryer for the Daily Mail Published: 22:02, 28 June 2024 | Updated: 22:39, 28 June 2024 e-mail View comments There is something splendid about standing on top of the rugged, lichened, 89-acre kingdom of Mullagrach; tasting the salt on my lips from the sea spray, watching the cormorants swirl, listening to the skylarks sing and knowing there’s nothing but water between me and the North Pole. Oh, how very wonderful it must be to be rich.
Because this glorious spot — a teeny island, all cliffs and coves, crags and shags and flowering sedums, and perched right on the northernmost tip of the Summer Isles — is up for sale. And it could be mine, or yours, for half a million pounds. Plus a bit extra for a sturdy boat to make the 35-minute crossing from the Old Dorney Harbour on the mainland.
And another £395,000, if I fancied snapping up Mullagrach House back on the mainland, to have somewhere comfy and cosy to wait, and wait, and maybe wait a bit longer, for the sea to be calm enough to cross to my very own island. Because, as always, there’s a teeny-weeny catch — this gorgeous Highlands and Islands utopia is not brilliantly accessible. In fact, at the moment, the only way to get on to it is to climb a rickety-looking series of very vertical, rusty ladde.
