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Cleit 85, Village. View from East.

SC 416660

Description Cleit 85, Village. View from East.

Date 1986

Collection Records of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS), Edinbu

Catalogue Number SC 416660

Category On-line Digital Images

Copy of B 11188

Scope and Content 'Lady Grange's House' (Cleit 85) above the village, Hirta, St Kilda, Hebrides St Kilda was settled in ancient times but repopulated after 1727 when a smallpox epidemic left only 30 survivors. The only village, on Hirta, was rebuilt in the 1830s and evacuated in 1930 after the population had shrunk to under 30. 'Lady Grange's House', Cleit 85, is the largest surviving cleit, or storage house, above the village. It probably stands on the site of Lady Grange's house in 1734-42. She kept throwing messages wrapped around cork floats into the sea, hoping for rescue. In 1731, Lady Rachel Erskine Grange overheard her husband plotting with Jacobite conspirators and threatened to denounce the whole group. They kidnapped her, faked her funeral, and kept her a prisoner in the Hebrides until she died in 1745. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

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