Editing Castlebay (section)

==Media==
Castlebay was the main setting for the 1949 [[Ealing Studios]] comedy, ''[[Whisky Galore! (1949 film)|Whisky Galore!]]'', and its 1957 sequel, 
''[[Rockets Galore!]]'', which were both filmed on Barra. The earlier film is based on the novel ''[[Whisky Galore (novel)|Whisky Galore]]'' by Sir [[Compton Mackenzie]], itself a fictionalised telling of the story of the [[SS Politician|SS ''Politician'']], which ran aground with a cargo of some 50,000 cases of whisky on board in 1941. Mackenzie, who lived near the airport and died in 1972, is buried in a grave marked by a simple cross at {{lang|gd|Cille Bharra}} cemetery, which is situated a little way up the hillside overlooking Eoligarry jetty.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.screenonline.org.uk/film/id/441458/ |title=Whisky Galore! |publisher=screenonline.org.uk |accessdate=29 March 2008 }}</ref><ref>[https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/34803 "Grave of Compton MacKenzie, Eolaigearraidh, Barra"] Photograph NF 7007. Geograph. Retrieved 4 April 2010.</ref>

In the 2010 [[Channel 4]] programme ''Dom Joly and the Black Island'', [[Dom Joly|Joly]] and [[Tintinologist]] [[Michael Farr]] identify Castlebay and Kisimul as the locations of Kiltoch and the Ben More Castle used as settings in ''[[The Adventures of Tintin]]'' comic ''[[The Black Island]]'', although the scenes of reaching it by boat and exploring it on foot were filmed at [[Lochranza Castle]] on the [[Isle of Arran]].{{cn|date=January 2022}}

In 2011, 18 episodes, series 5 and 6, of [[An Island Parish]] were screened on [[BBC2]]  documenting the arrival and subsequent experiences of a new Catholic priest on the island, Father John Paul.{{cn|date=January 2022}}