Archaeology Notes
Event ID 739186
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
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NC66NW 1 centred 638 652.
Eilean nan Ron (centred NC 638 652): inhabited until the 1930's consisted of six crofts and a school.
The houses are now in a semi-ruinous condition. The island has been occasionally occupied since the original evacuation.
Information from Mr J Mackay, Skerray; visited by OS (JB) 10 October 1978.
The township comprising two unroofed and sixteen roofed buildings is depicted on the 1st edition OS 6-inch map (Sutherland 1878, sheet viii). The township is shown as ten unroofed and four roofed buildings on the current OS 1:10,560 map (1961).
Information from RCAHMS (FO) 15 August 1995.