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Rum, Ruadh-mhol
Farmstead (Medieval) - (Post Medieval), Settlement (Medieval) - (Post Medieval)
Site Name Rum, Ruadh-mhol
Classification Farmstead (Medieval) - (Post Medieval), Settlement (Medieval) - (Post Medieval)
Alternative Name(s) Rhum
Canmore ID 10954
Site Number NG30SE 17
NGR NG 38866 03639
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/10954
- Council Highland
- Parish Small Isles
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Lochaber
- Former County Inverness-shire
Three unroofed buildings (at NG 3887 0363) are depicted on the 1st edition of the OS 6-inch map (Argyllshire, Islands of Rum, Sanday etc., 1879, sheet lxi) and on the current edition of the OS 1:10000 map (1975) although they are not at the same location.
Information from RCAHMS (SAH) 6 December 1996
Field Visit (May 1983)
Ruadh-mhol NG 388 036 NG30SE
The abandoned settlement of Ruadh-mhol comprises four buildings and three enclosures. Two of the buildings are situated at the head of the stormbeach. The larger measures 7.4m by 3.4m within a walI 1.2m thick and 1.5m high, and has opposed entrances in the sides; the smaller, which measures 4m by 2.4m internally, has an enclosure butted on to its ENE side. The remaining buildings and enclosures occupy a terrace overlooking the beach. One of the buildings has two compartments, the smaller of which (4m by 2.2m internally) has been butted on to the larger (9m by 3.3m internally) each compartment has a recess in the shared wall, which still stands up to 1.5m in height. The last building, which lies about 40m to the NNE, measures 7.7m by 3.5m within a wall 0.8m thick and 1.4m high and has a window in the NNE end.
RCAHMS 1983, visited May 1983
(OS 6-inch map, Island of Rum, Argyllshire, 1 st ed., 1879, sheet lxi)
