Fuday

{{Short description|Uninhabited island in Scotland}}

{{distinguish|Wiay, Uist|Wiay, Skye|Fuiay}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}}

{{Infobox Scottish island

|coordinates = {{coord|57.05|-07.39|display=inline}}

|location_map=Scotland Outer Hebrides

|caption=Fuday shown within the Outer Hebrides

|GridReference=NF736082

|celtic name=Fùideigh

|norse name=

|meaning of name=

|area= {{cvt|232|ha|sqmi|frac=16}}

|area rank=101

|highest elevation=Mullach Neacail, {{cvt|89|m|ft|0}}

|Population= uninhabited since 1901

|population rank=

|main settlement=

|island group=Uists and Barra

|local authority=Na h-Eileanan Siar

|references={{Haswell-Smith}}{{Ordnance Survey}}

}}

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Fuday (Scottish Gaelic: Fùideigh) is an uninhabited island of about {{convert|232|ha|acre|abbr=off}} and is one of ten islands in the Sound of Barra, a Site of Community Importance for conservation in the Outer Hebrides of Scotland.

It lies just east of Scurrival Point on Barra and west of Eriskay. Fuday is owned by the Scottish Government.{{cite web|url=http://www.scottish-places.info/features/featurefirst7816.html | title=Overview of Fuday| publisher=Gazetteer for Scotland| access-date=2007-11-11}} Deserted since 1901, its peak population is recorded only as seven.

It is still used for the summer grazing of cattle, and they used to be swum across the {{convert|1|mi|km|adj=mid|-wide|abbr=off|0}}, but shallow, Caolas Fuideach (strait) to there from Eoligarry. When cattle were first introduced to the island, they were killed by dehydration. The crofters who left the cattle on the island failed to show the animals the location of the only drinkable source of water on the island, a loch far inland on the island. The cattle thus could not find drinking water and died of thirst.{{citation needed|date=August 2021}}

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