Recording Your Heritage Online
Event ID 567158
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Recording Your Heritage Online
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Cleadale Crofting hamlet beneath the fretted heights of Sgorr an Fharaidh, one of the island's three townships in 1806 and the first to be divided up (in 1810) into small enclosed lots as an incentive for those whose labours were essential to the profitable business of harvesting kelp. Only Croft No 6 retains its traditional roundcornered 19th-century dwelling, modernised early 20th century when most thatched roofs on the island were replaced with red tin. In 1913 , five identical improved houses were built at the new township of Cuagach for crofters removed from Galmisdale. Each had a slate roof, cast-iron range, panelling and two upstairs bedrooms (the old houses became their byres).
Taken from "Western Seaboard: An Illustrated Architectural Guide", by Mary Miers, 2008. Published by the Rutland Press http://www.rias.org.uk
