Architecture Notes

Event ID 791788

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Architecture Notes

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NB21NE 7 c. 2611 1964

See also: NB43SE 11 and NB44SE 56.

This is one of three monuments commemorating civil unrest in the 1880s in Lewis. This memorial cairn was built c1995 to commemorate the the Pairc Deer Raid of November 1887, and the crofters struggle for land in the face of worsening poverty. Through the raid, during which they killed many deer, they challenged the authority of the State (Lady Matheson in particular) in an attempt to regain some of the lands from which they had been cleared. Six of the raiders eventually faced trial in Edinburgh, but were acquitted by the High Court. The cairn was designed by Will Maclean and built by Jim Crawford (stone mason).

Information from RCAHMS (MKO), 5 June 1997.