Note
Date 8 July 2022
Event ID 1157045
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Note
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1157045
ND29NW 2 ND 20475 98744
This former farmstead is situated in the crofting township of Rackwick on the island of Hoy, lying at the top of the shingle beach and to the S of the Rackwick Burn. It comprises one roofed building now in use as a bothy, a roofless building set parallel to it, a small hut and an enclosure. Some of the ground around the bothy and between the burn and the sea has been cultivated in the past, while a large area of peat cuttings can be seen about 200m to the NNE.
The 19th century farmstead is depicted on the 1st edition of the OS 6-inch map as two roofed buildings and an enclosure (Orkney, sheet cxviii, 1882). On the night of the 1881 census it was occupied by farmer James Nicolson (38), his wife Mary Ann (39) and her mother Barbra Mowat (78), and the couples 5 children, Mary Ann (13), Jamima (9), James (7), John (5) and Sinclair (2).
Information from HES Archaeological Survey (D M Bratt and G Geddes) 8 July 2022
(Allan 2017, 270-1)
