Monument record MHG27705 - Glenmore

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Location

Grid reference Centred NG 4365 4012 (988m by 978m)
Map sheet NG44SW
Geographical Area SKYE AND LOCHALSH
Old County INVERNESS-SHIRE
Civil Parish PORTREE

Map

Type and Period (1)

Full Description

Created automatically by NMRS Register Utility
User: Admin, Date: Fri 10 Mar 2000
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NG44SW 7 centred on 440 394

A crofting township, a township and a field-system are depicted on the 1st edition of the OS 6-inch map (Inverness-shire, Isle of Skye 1881, sheet xxix). The crofting township comprises thirty-one roofed, two partially roofed and six unroofed buildings. The township comprises one roofed, eight unroofed buildings, a sheepfold, a field-system (NG 440 393) and a head-dyke.
Seventeen roofed, five partially roofed and twenty unroofed buildings and their associated enclosures and field walls are shown on the current edition of the OS 1:10560 map (1968).
Information from RCAHMS (SAH) 8 November 1996

Area the subject of proposed Woodland Grant Scheme (3614). Photos taken of rig and furrow evidence. <1>

The ruins of three of the township buildings depicted on the Ordnance Survey 1st edition were photographed as a requirement of planning permission for a new house. One is to be demolished, the other two to the south will be retained. The middle of the three ruins survives only as an earthwork. <2>

Sources/Archives (2)

  • <1> Verbal Communication: Highland Council. Comments by Alison Fox, HC Archaeologist.
  • <2> Image/Photograph(s): Hunter, D. 09/2008. Photographs of 3 Glenmore, Portree. Colour. . Digital.

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Record last edited

Oct 27 2008 1:39PM

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