Barra MacNeils was created in 1980.

The 21st chief had to sell Barra in 1838 and soon the castle was in ruins. Many of the MacNeils went to seek a better life in America. In the late 1930s, the 45th clan chief, American architect Robert Lister Macneil, returned to the island and bought the castle. Before his death in 1970 he succeeded in completing the much-needed restoration work. Water was piped from Castlebay and telephones installed. His son Ian Roderick, Professor of Law, took over the castle and is still the current Chief of the MacNeils of Barra. In March 2000 it was announced that he had handed the castle into the care of Historic Scotland on a 1000-year lease with an annual token rent of £1 and a bottle of whisky. Copied from "the Internet guide to Scotland."

Mark Barra's birth name is Maurizio Barra.

No barra is very lame -.-

The population of Barra da Tijuca is 300,823.