From Colindale looking across the MacPhee farm, the most distant
landfall across the water is Sight Point, where people cleared in 1828
from Rum and Muck settled. Closer hills, adjacent to the entrance of the
five mile long Mabou Harbour, include the lands occupied by
successive generations of Beatons, MacDonalds and Rankins who
arrived after 1802 and who farmed and fished up until the current
generation. They no longer farm.

Ceap Màbu:- A’coimhead amach thar a’chuain bho’n bhail’ aig Cloinn
a’ Phì an Dail Chailein, se Rudh’ an t-Seallaidh as fhaid’ air falbh ‘san
fhradharc; seo far an do thuinich na fògarraich a Ruma is Eilein nam
Muc an 1828. Làmh ri beul nan coig mile de dh’ Acarsaid Mhàbu, tha na
beanntan as fhaisge a’ gabhail asteach fearann a bhuineadh do
ghinealach as dèidh ginealaich de Pheutanaich, de Dhòmhnallaich agus
de Chloinn ‘ic Raing; thainig iad seo as dèidh 1802 agus bha iad ag àiteach agus
ag iasgach chun an là’n diugh. Chan eil iad ri obair fearainn a nis.

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