Archaeology Notes

Event ID 768759

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NM48NE 40 4955 8892

'The land of Kildonnan farm stretched right up the east coast of the island and in a very remote and beautiful position on a fertile terrace between the high cliffs of the moor and the sea cliff below are the ruins of a shieling (NM 496 889).' Hugh Miller describes the shieling in 1845 giving details of the interior of the shieling-hut.

Hugh Miller 1858; S W Martins 1995. (Bib no. 34747)

A farmstead, comprising one unroofed building, one unroofed stucture and two large enclosures or fields is depicted on the 1st edition of the OS 6-inch map (Argyllshire & Inverness-shire, Islands of Rum & Eigg 1879, sheet lxxi). Two unroofed buildings, one unroofed structure and the two large enclosures are shown on the current edition of the OS 1:10000 map (1976).

Information from RCAHMS (AKK) 9 December 1996.