Archaeology Notes

Event ID 853133

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NG71SW 8011 c. 713 121

N57 8.6 W5 46.8

NLO: Ornsay [name centred NG 710 127]

Loch Alsh [name centred NG 80 25]

Sound of Sleat [name centred NG 72 09]

Kyleakin [name: NG 754 263]

Kyle Akin [name centred NG 758 268]

Skye [name centred NG 45 35].

Corry, by Broadford, 30th Apl. The MARGARET (smack), of Fraserburgh, from Kessock to Loch Grishernish [Greshornish], with potatoes, got on a rock in the Sound of Sleat, 27th Apl., and is likely to become a total wreck: cargo much damaged.

Source: LL, No. 15,620, London, Wednesday, May 4 1864.

NMRS, MS/829/72 (no. 10611).

Kyleakin, Skye, 30th Apl. The MARGARET, Noble, from Inverness to Loch Grishernish, which got ashore to the NW of Isle Ornsay lighthouse in the night of 27th Apl., has received considerable damage: her stern-post and keel are broken in two. The cargo has been landed in a damaged condition.

Source: LL, No. 15,621, London, Thursday, May 5 1864.

NMRS, MS/829/72 (no. 10613).

(Classified as wooden sloop, with cargo of potatoes: date of loss cited as as 27 April 1864). Margaret: this vessel stranded on rocks NW of Isle of Ornsay Light, Sound of Sleat, and is expected to become a loss. [Capt.] Noble.

Registration: Peterhead. Bult 1807. 19grt. Length: 13m. Beam: 4m.

(Location of loss cited as N57 10.0 W5 45.0).

I G Whittaker 1998.

The location assigned to this record is essentially tentative. Isle Ornsay lighthouse (NG71SW 8.00) is at NG 71350 12183, on Eilean an Eoin, off the SE corner of Ornsay.

Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 21 December 2006.