Monument record MHG5188 - Suisnish

NG51NE 12 589 160.

(NG 589 160) Suisnish: cleared by Lord MacDonald in 1852, (A Nicolson 1930) partly occupied 1876 (OS 6"map, Isle of Skye, Inverness-shire, 1st ed.)
A Nicolson 1930.

The depopulated township of Suisnish shows two distinct phases of occupation.
The first is represented by a run-rig township of 10 houses and 4 outbuildings situated in a compact group on a shelf by a stream at NG 594 160.
The second phase is represented by a typical improvements township, centred NG 589 160, comprising about twelve crofts, some with outbuildings and yards still extant, each situated within its own large enclosure, and occupying the whole of the Rubha Suisnish headland.
The township is in use as a sheep-run, and deserted except for a shepherd's house.
Visited by OS (C F W) 19 June 1961.

A crofting township, comprising four roofed buildings, one partially roofed building, twenty unroofed of which three are long buildings and twelve enclosures is depicted on the 1st edition of the OS 6-inch map (Inverness-shire, Isle of Skye 1881, sheet li). Three roofed buildings, one partially roofed building and thirty-six unroofed buildings are shown on the current edition of the OS 1:10560 map (1965).
Information from RCAHMS (AKK) 29 November 1996.