Monument record MHG5323 - Dry Harbour

NG65NW 1 centred on 623 582

NG 623582 Dry Harbour: occupied 1901 (OS 6"map, Ross-shire, 2nd ed.), depopulated, except for one building, 1955 (OS 1"map, 7th series).
Visited by OS (A C) 17 January 1961

Dry Harbour (Acariseid Thioram) is situated astride narrowest part of Rona with easy access to E and W coasts. The depopulated township comprises 16 ruined houses of type 2, 11 type 3, 10 outbuildings and three fairly late buildings, one, the school-house, one, the mission house still roofed and in fair condition, but windowless, and the third a well-built cottage, with partly plastered walls.
There are areas of lazy-beds in the many sheltered depressions on all sides of the township.
Dry Harbour was possibly one of the townships created through the evictions of Mr. Rainy of Edinburgh who bought Raasay in 1846 and sent to Rona those crofters unwilling to go to Austrialia etc, and was probably finally depopulated when Rona people were given crofts in the Fearns district of Raasay in the 1920-30's. (Info from Miss Nicholson, "Eilean Tigh", Raasay, and from Mr Macleod {shoemaker} Clachan, Raasay)
Visited by OS (A S P) 12 June 1961

A township comprising thirty-one roofed, four unroofed buildings and two enclosures is depicted on the 1st edition of the OS 6-inch map (Inverness-shire, Isle of Skye 1878, sheet xiii). One roofed, forty-one unroofed buildings and two enclosures are shown on the current edition of the OS 1:10560 map (1968).
Information from RCAHMS (SAH) 30 October 1996