Castlebay is the main village and a community council area on the island of Barra in the Outer Hebrides of Scotland. It is located on the south coast of the island, and overlooks a bay in the Atlantic Ocean dominated by Kisimul Castle, as well as nearby islands such as Vatersay.
Kisimul Castle is located approximately 100 yards (100 m) away from the ferry terminal in the centre of the bay that Castlebay overlooks. It is the home of Clan MacNeil, but is currently under a thousand year lease to Historic Scotland from the MacNeil of Barra.
In the 2010 Channel 4 programme Dom Joly and the Black Island, Joly and Tintinologist Michael Farr identify Castlebay and Kisimul as the locations of Kiltoch and the Ben More Castle in the Tintin adventure The Black Island, although the scenes of him attempting to reach it by boat and subsequently exploring it on foot were filmed at Lochranza Castle on the Isle of Arran. This was not made explicit, however this castle also claims associations with the Tintin story.
