Monument record MHG5753 - Annishader

NG45SW 9 centred on 440 509

(NG 440 509) Annishader: shown as a township in 1824 (Information from W Johnson's Map of Skye, 1824) but totally destroyed by 1878 (OS 6"map, Inverness-shire, Island of Skye, 1st ed.). The present Annishader (OS 1"map, 7th Series) is described as 'Birkisco' in 1875 (OS 6"map, Inverness-shire, Island of Skye, 1st ed.)

Annishader: a depopulated township consisting of 17 ruined houses, several outbuildings and enclosures. There are extensive lazy-beds in the area.
Visited by OS (A S P) 30 April 1961

A township comprising nineteen unroofed buildings, five of which are long buildings, five enclosures, one of which is labelled as a sheepfold, and a head-dyke is depicted on the 1st edition of the OS 6-inch map (Inverness-shire, Isle of Skye 1881, sheet xvii). Twenty-three unroofed buildings, four enclosures, some field walls and a head-dyke are shown on the current edition of the OS 1:10560 map (1968).
Information from RCAHMS (SAH) 15 October 1996