Eoligarry

Paul visited Eoligarry beach on a very windy day to get a sense of the level of dune erosion. Some of the people who live in Eoligarry shared pictures after a recent storm. The power of the waves eats into the dunes and cuts off slices. Those who braved that windy day gleaned some assurance that change is a natural process for dunes.

In the August of 2025, Muir Is Tir kicked off the project’s coastal monitoring work with a month of fieldwork on the dunes of Vatersay and Eoligarry. This being the project’s first summer in operation, the goal of this year’s field season was to gather initial baseline data on the plants and soils from each of our sites. Over the course of a month, Muir Is Tir’s researcher Amanda Vestergaard surveyed a total of 30 plots alongside local volunteers and community groups. After d