Barpa Langass
Barpa Langass or Langass Barp is a Neolithic chambered cairn on the Isle of North Uist in the Outer Hebrides of Scotland. It measures around 22 meters in diameter by 5.5 meters in height, and is around 5,000 years old.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Otter, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: Archaeological site
- Description: chambered cairn in Scotland
- Also known as: “Barpa Langass, chambered cairn, North Uist”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Pobull Fhinn.
Pobull Fhinn
Photo: Otter, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Pobull Fhinn is a stone circle on the Isle of North Uist in the Outer Hebrides. The name is Gaelic. The first word has been variously spelt as pobull, poball, pobul or as plural pobuill. Pobull Fhinn is situated 2,900 feet southeast of Barpa Langass.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Locheport and North Uist.
Locheport
Village
Photo: Chris McLean, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Locheport is a village, which is situated 2 miles southeast of Barpa Langass.
North Uist
Photo: AlasdairW, CC BY-SA 3.0.
North Uist is an island in the Western Isles or Outer Hebrides of Scotland. It measures 20 miles north-south, 25 miles east-west, and is separated from Benbecula to the south by a tidal ford, nowadays bridged by a causeway.
Carinish
Village
Photo: Anne Burgess, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Carinish, is a hamlet on North Uist, in the Outer Hebrides, Scotland. It is in the south of the island, about two miles from the causeway to Benbecula. Carinish is situated 3½ miles south of Barpa Langass.
Barpa Langass
- Categories: historic site, tourist attraction, and tourism
- Location: Western Isles, Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
57.57054° or 57° 34′ 14″ northLongitude
-7.29152° or 7° 17′ 30″ westOpen location code
9C9JHPC5+69OpenStreetMap ID
way 708575961OpenStreetMap feature
historic=archaeological_siteWikidata ID
Q764303
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In Other Languages
From Dutch to Ukrainian—“Barpa Langass” goes by many names.
- Dutch: “Barpa Langais”
- French: “Barpa Langass”
- German: “Barpa Langass”
- Irish: “Barpa Langais”
- Russian: “Барпа-Лангас”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Barpa Langais”
- Ukrainian: “Барпа-Лангас”
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Beinn Langais and Langass Woods.
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Barpa Langass”. Photo: Otter, CC BY-SA 3.0.