See Flora MacDonald's House, Isle of South Uist, Scotland

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Flora MacDonald (1722 – 5 March 1790) is best known for helping Charles Edward Stuart evade government troops after the Battle of Culloden in April 1746. Her family had generally backed the government during the 1745 Rising, and MacDonald later claimed to have assisted Charles out of sympathy for his situation. Arrested and held in the Tower of London, she was released under a general amnesty in June 1747. She later married Allan MacDonald and the couple emigrated to North Carolina in 1773. Their support for the British government during the American War of Independence meant the loss of their American estates and they returned to Scotland, where she died in 1790. Only the foundation walls remain of the very simple cottage where Flora MacDonald was raised. Sometimes wrongly referred to as her birthplace, as far as we know Flora MacDonald was not, in fact, born here, but she did live at this simple stone cottage for a time as a child.

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