The Listening Place by Valerie Pragnell
The Listening Place celebrates the history, the bards and the agricultural aspect of the area. Appropriately, it's location is on the site of the old village school, beside the burn which marks the boundary of South Lochboisdale and North Glendale.
Verses from two poems are inscribed on stone. The poems, Gleann na Ceolraidh by Donald MacDonald from South Lochboisdale, and Taigh a' Bhaird by Donald J MacDonald from Peninerine, were chosen by members of the community.
Five replica cast tractor seats provide a place to sit and listen, reflect on the poetry. and absorb the landscape.
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Part
of the Roadends Project 1998-2000 The Roadends project involved four artists and four different Communities. The communities provided a location, ideas, and in many cases, a tremendous amount of assistance. The project set out to widen people's experience of art in the environment, while encouraging people to visit some of the beautiful and less-visited parts of the island. The project was funded by The Scottish Arts Council National Lottery Fund and Western Isles Enterprise. |
Aite na h-Eisdeachd
Tha
Aite na h-Eisdeachd a' moladh eachdraidh agus baird na sgJre. Mar a
bu choir, tha e air a thogail air larach an t-seann taigh-sgoile. ri
taobh na h-aibhne a tha comharrchadh criochan Taobh-a-Deas
N Loch Baghasdail agus Ceann-a- Tuath Ghleann Dail. Tha earannan a da
dhan air an sgriobhadh air cloich. Bha na dain, Gleann na Ceolraidh
le Domhnall Aonghais Bhain a Taobh-a-Deas Loch Baghasdail agus Taigh
a' Bhaird le Domhnall lain Dhunnchaidh a Peighinn an Aoirinn, air an
taghadh le buill dhen choimhearsachd.
