Monument record MHG5994 - Lower Halistra

NG25NW 9.06 2409 5943.

This farmstead, which is situated on the E bank of a small unnamed burn, just behind the modern cottage at the S end of the croft, formerly included a building, shown roofed on the 1st edition of the OS 6-inch map (Island of Skye &c., Inverness-shire 1880, sheet ix), and an enclosure, on the site of the modern cottage. The surviving ruins include a long building, an outbuilding and a small hut, which is tucked into the gully of the burn. The long building, also roofed on the 1st edition (op.cit.), measures 9.1m from N to S by 3.3m transversely within walls 0.8m in thickness and 1.5m in height with an entrance to the E side and an outshot to the S.
(WAT90 77-8)
Visited by RCAHMS (PJD) 1 October 1990.