Monument record MHG5998 - Peinstaphen

NG25NW 10 242 592.

This township lies to the W and SW of the junction of the Trumpan and Geary roads and is bounded to the N and W by the Allt na Claise Moire and the sea-shore. The southern extent is bounded by a straight drystone wall aligned from NNE to SSW from the road junction to the shore.
The farm of Peine Staptine is first documented in a rent roll of 1683 of the MacLeod estate (R C MacLeod 1928, Vol.I) and in 1788 when there were four married couples, fourteen children and five unmarried adults (SRO GD 9/3 Abstract Minutes of the British Fisheries Society 1786-1788), living on the farm. It appears to have been reorganised as a crofting township in the first half of the 19th century in conjunction with Hallin (see NG25NW 11).

(Numbers in brackets refer to Dbase data available in manuscript form) 10.01 NG 2455 5931 Building (148)
10.02 NG 2436 5926 Farmstead (149-151)
10.03 NG 2427 5922 Mill (Possible) (152)
10.04 NG 2425 5918 Farmstead (153-155)
10.05 NG 2425 5912 Mill; Kiln (Possible); Lade (157)

Visited by RCAHMS (DCC) 2 October 1990.

A township, comprising five roofed and seven unroofed buildings is depicted on the 1st edition of the OS 6-inch map (Inverness-shire, Isle of Skye 1881, sheet ix). Three unroofed, two partially roofed and seven unroofed buildings are shown on the current edition of the OS 1:10560 map (1965).
Information from RCAHMS (AKK) 6 November 1996.