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Archaeology Notes
Date 1965
Event ID 657240
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/657240
NF98SW 3 9323 8151 and 9322 8153.
An old building at Risgary is locally called a 'Teampull', but was, in 1914, used as a byre. It bears a modern tablet which states in Latin, that this is the birthplace of Sir Norman Macleod of Bernaray (17th c.) The birthplace, however, is said to have been 20 yards N of the present building.
Source: RCAHMS 1928.
The 'Teampull', in use as a byre, at NF 9323 8151, measures 8 x 5m x 2.8m high, and is constructed of roughly coursed masonry with small stone pinnings bonded with shell mortar. It has two slit windows in the S, one in the E and one in the N wall, all of which have been blocked up. On the N side there are three almost square apertures just below the eaves. The tablet mentioned by RCAHMS is above the entrance which is in the N wall. A modern drystone building has been built on to the W end of the 'Teampull' which now has a corrugated iron roof. It is apparently the oldest building on the island.
According to Mr McLeod (D J McLeod, Risgary, Bernaray), Sir Norman McLeod was, in fact, born in the drystone building to the N as stated by RCAHMS, and which is now also used as a byre.
Visited by OS (R D) 20 June 1965.
