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Harris, Rodel Harbour, Hand Crane

Crane (19th Century)

Site Name Harris, Rodel Harbour, Hand Crane

Classification Crane (19th Century)

Canmore ID 10523

Site Number NG08SW 8.01

NGR NG 04866 82809

Datum OSGB36 - NGR

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  • Council Western Isles
  • Parish Harris
  • Former Region Western Isles Islands Area
  • Former District Western Isles
  • Former County Inverness-shire

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Other interesting remnants include a 19th-century hand-crank wooden-jib post crane on the western quay, and a hydro powered generator/turbine house, its supply pipe/machinery of Second World War vintage still in situ. Storehouse/byre, 18th century(?) Tin-roofed structure perched above the harbour, its ground floor entered from the rear, and a roofless granary with ventilation slits. The rear enclosure, with thick, buttressed walls, suggests an earlier building, possibly the "keeping house" for which blacksmith John Morison (Iain Gobha) received a payment for "dressing the locks and bonds of Macleod's keeping house and girnels at Roudill" in 1708.

Taken from "Western Seaboard: An Illustrated Architectural Guide", by Mary Miers, 2008. Published by the Rutland Press http://www.rias.org.uk

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