Gallan Head is a high promontory which was used for many years as a Cold War military radar base. The Gallan Head Community Trust bought the peninsula from the Army in 2014, however, empty buildings and installations remain. The views across to the Flannan islands and up the West Coast of Lewis are spectacular. The geocache is hidden in the old Lookout Station, a prominenet roofless building furthest out from the road end. From here it is easy to speculate that Gallan Head was also a stopping-off point for Neolithic and Bronze Age sea travelers, a place where anxious islanders watched out for invading Vikings and kept an eye on the seas during times of war in the ensuing centuries.
Please remember at all times that there are high unfenced cliffs in this area.