KNOCK, a quoad sacra parish (for a time), in the
parish of Stornoway, island of Lewis, county of Ross-and-Cromarty,
5 miles (E.) from the town of Stornoway;
containing 1637 inhabitants. This district, which
is called also Uii, and Eye, is connected with the main
part of the parish of Stornovi'ay by a narrow isthmus,
and is bounded on the west by Broad bay, and on the
east and south by the channel of the Minch, which separates
it from the main land of the county. It comprises
about 12,000 acres, and was erected.- into a quoad
sacra district on the building of a church by parliamentary
grant within the last few years. In all its statistical
details it is identified with Stornoway; it comprises
only a few rural hamlets, the inhabitants of which
are engaged in the fisheries common to that parish. The
church, a neat structure, contains about SOO sittings, and
the minister has a stipend of £120, with a manse and
glebe; patron, the Crown. The members of the Free
Church have a place of worship. There are also two
schools supported by the Gaelic society of Edinburgh.
In the cemetery of the old church of Uii, of which there
are considerable remains, it is traditionally recorded that
not less than sixteen of the Mc Leods, the ancient lords
of Lewis, were interred.