Field Visit

Date August 1973

Event ID 672733

Category Recording

Type Field Visit

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NM04NE 17 0697 4784.

Croft-houses and Steading. These hip-roofed buildings are evidently associated with a croft of about 4.6ha (11.4 acres). They are grouped in a linear plan measuring some 36m in length over all, and the thatched dwelling-house, which is now derelict and semi-ruinous, occupies the central portion of the range. The remains of a small byre and a barn stand at the NW end of the range, whilst at the SE end there is a small thatched store and a felt-roofed cart-shed. Although probably dating from a period in the early 19th century when the crofting divisions at Ruaig were first formed, the croft-house is of interest as an example of the later chimneyed version of the thick-walled Hebridean house.

RCAHMS 1980, visited August 1973

[see RCAHMS 1980, No. 372 for further details]