Monument record MHG5261 - Lealt

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Location

Grid reference Centred NG 5060 6075 (564m by 437m) (Buffered by site type)
Map sheet NG56SW
Geographical Area SKYE AND LOCHALSH
Old County INVERNESS-SHIRE
Civil Parish KILMUIR

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Full Description

Centred on 506 606.

NG 506 606. Lealt: depopulated township consists of about 14 ruined houses, with garths, and some small enclosures. Partly re-occupied.
Visited by OS (A S P) 27 April 1961.

A crofting township comprising seventeen roofed buildings, four of which are long buildings, two unroofed buildings, one of which is a long building, their associated enclosures and field walls and two phases of head-dyke is depicted on the 1st edition of the OS 6-inch map (Inverness-shire, Isle of Skye 1880, sheet xii). Ten roofed and fourteen unroofed buildings, their associated enclosures and field walls and two phases of head-dyke are shown on the current edition of the OS 1:10000 map (1993).
Information from RCAHMS (SAH) 10 October 1996

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Record last edited

Feb 28 2017 9:53AM

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