Sunday Times Where Was I?

The puzzle writer has upped his game this week and taken us to a region which is a relatively
unexplored MAMBA wilderness and which does not have much infrastructure to illustrate on a
map but near as I can figure it, the answers are:

Q1. Calum Macleod

Q2. Holoman Island

(nb for question 2, depending on which map you look at, this is sometimes spelled Holman island, the Eastender is going with the first spelling as he has seen some documents written by government employees (RCAHMS) which use it, not that this is any guarantee of competence on their part of course)

The initial clues, place us squarely on the Island of Raasay, off the east coast of
Skye. The road builder was a guy called Calum MacLeod (or as he is known in those parts
'Calum the road' ) and from looking at the harsh terrain which he single handedly constructed it through, he must have been a descendant of another famous builder, Fion Mac Cumhail (Finn Mccool).Apparentley, to become the Macleod clan chief, you have to drink four pints of claret from a cow horn and if you survive and stop seeing pink elephants, you are considered to be worthy of leadership...(bit like that scene with David Niven and Deborah Kerr, in the film Casino Royale)

Calum MacLeod worked as a keeper on the lighthouse, on the Island of south Rona, which is north of Raasay. The lighthouse is listed as being 13 metres or approx 43 feet high and was established in 1857. At the southern end of his road, lies Brochel castle, which looks like the castle that the Kurgan destroyed in the film 'Highlander'. The hill which is the island's highest point at 1,453ft is called 'Dun Caan'.

A famous poet from Raasay, was Sorely MacLean, and he was born in the hamlet of Oskaig, which lies south west of Brochel castle.The ruined chapel is possibly that of an Ulsterman called St Moluag.His feast day is on the 25th June.The map shows a disused mine with a dismantled railway track leading from it to the sea, a little way south east of the chapel ruins.From the writer's position at the junction he mentions, a half mile to the west, lies a small tidal island called Holoman island. Depending on which map you look at, this can also be called Holman island.