Located at the far end of Balephuil Beach ( Travee ) is Kenavara, one of only three hills on the island. On the South of Kenavara lies Teampall Phàraig ‘St Patricks Temple’, the remains of a medieval chapel on the site of a 6th-century monastery.
On the 8th July 1856 it was a calm and sunny morning and only an arc of a rainbow in the west warned Archibald Campbell (Am Bòidheach) from Barrapol not to go to sea that day. He warned the other men but seven boats set out from Am Pòrt Mòr in West Hynish for the Skerryvore fishing banks. At midday a sudden storm scattered the fleet and nine men were drowned. There is now a memorial cairn over-looking Am Port Mòr for the men lost in Fuadach Baille Phuill ‘the Balephuil Fishing Disaster’.
