'Rare offering': Entire island with ruined castle goes on sale

An full Scottish island, implicit with a ruined castle and respective vacation homes, has gone connected merchantability for £5.5m.

Shuna Island spans astir 1,110 acres and is connected merchantability for the archetypal clip aft being held by the aforesaid household for 80 years.

Estate agents Sotheby's International Realty said the land was a "truly uncommon offering, affluent successful heritage, earthy wonderment and possibility".

The land features the remains of Shuna Castle, an aboriginal 20th-century operation with panoramic coastal views, arsenic good arsenic 8 residential properties which tin location 52 people.

The historical castle besides has the imaginable for redevelopment, taxable to readying rules, according to the property agent.

The land besides supports livestock farming and "is teeming with wildlife, from reddish and fallow cervid to eagles and porpoises", it said.

The island's traditions besides see state sports and cervid stalking, it added.

The land is powered by a renewable vigor strategy with photovoltaic panels, upwind turbines, artillery retention and back-up generators.

It besides has a backstage pier, slipways for boats and a helipad.

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Sotheby's International Realty said: "Whether arsenic a regenerative tourism task oregon a household estate, this bonzer Hebridean land offers an exceptional beingness lived disconnected the beaten path."