Monument record MHG18251 - Skye, Torrin

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Location

Grid reference Centred NG 5790 2060 (140m by 140m) (Buffered by site type)
Map sheet NG52SE
Geographical Area SKYE AND LOCHALSH
Old County INVERNESS-SHIRE
Civil Parish STRATH

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Full Description

Centred on 579 206

To the S side of the Allt Slapin at 15m OD is a ruinous croft house. The ruins consist of a two compartment house with square internal and external corners which measure 16m x 5.5m over walls 0.8m wide. A door opening 1.0m wide lies in the NE wall of each compartment.
Visited 1991.
NMRS MS/530

A crofting township comprising sixty-four roofed buildings, one of which is annotated as a school, two partially roofed buildings and eight unroofed buildings is depicted on the 1st edition of the OS 6-inch map (Inverness-shire, Isle of Skye 1881, sheet xlvi). Also shown is a field-system (NG585 207).
Fifty-three roofed, one partially roofed and twenty-two unroofed buildings and the field-system are shown on the current edition of the OS 1:10560 map (1968).
Information from RCAHMS (SAH) 4 December 1996

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Record last edited

May 13 2016 12:00AM

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