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Archaeology Notes
Event ID 761197
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/761197
NG47SW 6 421 732.
(NG 421 732) Un-named depopulated township; deserted pre-1875 (OS 6"map, Isle of Skye, Inverness-shire, 1st ed.) Possibly the township of Urgag shown shown hereabouts in 1824 (Information from W Johnson's Map of Skye, 1824)
The depopulated township of Urgag is situated on a rocky shelf on a N-facing slope, and comprises a group of about 12 ruined houses, and a number of small enclosures. A considerable area of lazy-beds extends along the valley bottom between this township and Bealach (NG47SW 7) to the W.
Visited by OS (C F W) 25 April 1961.
A township, comprising one partially roofed building, four unroofed buildings, four enclosures and a head-dyke is depicted on the 1st edition of the OS 6-inch maps (Inverness-shire, Isle of Skye 1878, sheet iv). Eleven unroofed buildings, nine enclosures and the head-dyke are shown on the current edition of the OS 1:10560 map (1966).
Information from RCAHMS (AKK) 8 October 1996.
