Monument record MHG25970 - Totescore

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Location

Grid reference Centred NG 3820 6619 (140m by 140m) (Buffered by site type)
Map sheet NG36NE
Geographical Area SKYE AND LOCHALSH
Old County INVERNESS-SHIRE
Civil Parish KILMUIR

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Full Description

Centred on 382 662

This grid reference is centred - the township is spread over a considerable area and there is no specific focus of settlement.
(KC 08/04)

A crofting township comprising fifty-one roofed buildings, one of which is a long building and which also include a smithy, two partially roofed buildings, ten unroofed buildings and their associated enclosures is depicted on the 1st edition of the OS 6-inch map (Inverness-shire, Island of Skye 1880, sheet vi). A system of head-dykes occupies the hill ground to the E of the township and connects with the township of Idrigil (NG36SE 12) to the S.
Twenty-nine roofed, six partially roofed and twenty-two unroofed buildings, and the system of head-dykes are shown on the current edition of the OS 1:10560 map (1968).
Information from RCAHMS (SAH) 30 September 1996

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Record last edited

Jan 28 2008 12:00AM

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