 One of the more poignant ruins on Hirta is the site of ' Lady Grange 's House ' . Lady Grange had been married to the Jacobite sympathiser James Erskine of Grange for 25 years when he decided that she might have overheard too many of his treasonable <unk> . He had her kidnapped and secretly confined in Edinburgh for six months . From there she was sent to the Monach Isles , where she lived in isolation for two years . She was then taken to Hirta from 1734 to 1740 , which she described as " a vile <unk> , stinking poor isle " . After a failed rescue attempt , she was removed by Erskine to the Isle of Skye , where she died . The ' house ' is a large cleit in the Village meadows . 
