General view of front of thatched inn with additional buildings to the right. Four people are standing outside the door.

Description General view of front of thatched inn with additional buildings to the right. Four people are standing outside the door.

Date 18/9/1897

Collection Papers of Erskine Beveridge, antiquarian, Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland

Catalogue Number SC 746878

Category On-line Digital Images

Copy of IN 946

Scope and Content Tighary Inn, North Uist, Western Isles (now abandoned) Tighary Inn, an early 19th-century thatched cottage that stood at Tighary, a township on the north-west coast of North Uist, was, in the late 19th century, one of four inns on the island. This photograph, taken c.1897 by Erskine Beveridge, provides a unique photographic record of the old inn before it was abandoned and disroofed in 1899. The cottage has thick, white-painted, sloping stone walls which rise to a wall-head which forms an exposed ledge extending round the house, a characteristic feature of this type of local architecture. The roof is of thatch, secured by ropes which are anchored by stones arranged around the wall-head. It has a short central chimney emerging through the centre of the thatch ridge. The large chimneys at each end of the house, which indicate a fireplace in each of the end walls, are uncharacteristic of the island's blackhouses. In 1837, according to the Statistical Account, there were four inns on the island. One was at the packet (mail-boat) station at Lochmaddy in the north-east, another at Carinish at the opposite extremity of the island, and the other two at Loch Aonghuis and Balamartin respectively. The inn at Balamartin was soon afterwards given up in favour of one at Tighary, a short distance to the south. Tighary Inn was itself abandoned in 1899, its licence being transferred to Kirkibost under the same tenant. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

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