Harris, Rodel, Generating Station
Dam (Period Unassigned), Pipeline (Period Unassigned), Power Station (20th Century)
Site Name Harris, Rodel, Generating Station
Classification Dam (Period Unassigned), Pipeline (Period Unassigned), Power Station (20th Century)
Canmore ID 10524
Site Number NG08SW 9
NGR NG 0495 8294
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/10524
- Council Western Isles
- Parish Harris
- Former Region Western Isles Islands Area
- Former District Western Isles
- Former County Inverness-shire
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
