Recording Your Heritage Online
Event ID 567130
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Recording Your Heritage Online
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/567130
Galmisdale Former crofting community in the lee of the Sgurr, its old houses pulled down in 1897 when crofters were relocated to the island's north end to make way for the new lodge. Plans by the British Fisheries Society to develop a fishing village here in 1788 fell through, and instead a small, injudiciously-sited dock was built with statute labour by Clanranald in 1790, principally to service his kelp industry. A small castellated structure on the present pier, built 1930 as the estate office, assumed the role of gate lodge for arriving and departing visitors.
Taken from "Western Seaboard: An Illustrated Architectural Guide", by Mary Miers, 2008. Published by the Rutland Press http://www.rias.org.uk
