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Ruisgarry Byre
Date 15 January 2009
Event ID 911006
Category Management
Type Site Management
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/911006
Thatched single storey byre set at acute angle to a 2 storey granary/ barn.Both structures built of coursed rubble and gabled. Inner door to long south front; single window to either gable; drain near west end of north wall; muran thatch roof, secured with ropes and netting, stone weights over inner wall head, pegs on gable head. (Historic Scotland).
Part of a survival of an important complex of farm buildings associated with the former house of the Macleods of Berneray. Sir Norman Macleod of Berneray lived in a house believed to have stood 20 yds from the barn/ byre, which became a seat of learning and a shelter for the wandering bards immortalised in the works of poets such as Mary Macleod and Neil MacVurich. (M.Miers)
