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Archaeology Notes
Event ID 846905
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/846905
NL58SE 86 5652 8339
The mid-19th century schoolhouse of Mingulay now lies half buried in a sand-dune on a rise to the N of the township. A second structure lies buried in sand to the NW, and there is a sub-circular stone-walled yard or garden plot to the N. The school building is essentially a blackhouse, with rounded external corners and squared internal corners, a central entrance between two splayed window openings on the S and a fireplace in the W end with a square chimney rising 0.65m in height above the wall. The interior measures 9.5m by 3.9m transversely and the walls are up to 1.5m in thickness and 1.2m in height. It is depicted as roofed on the 1st edition OS 6-inch map and annotated 'School (Boys and Girls)' (Outer Hebrides 1880, sheet LXX).
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Visited by RCAHMS (PJD) 25 June 2003.
