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Rum, Samhnan Insir
Farmstead (Post Medieval)
Site Name Rum, Samhnan Insir
Classification Farmstead (Post Medieval)
Alternative Name(s) Rhum
Canmore ID 10956
Site Number NG30SE 19
NGR NG 37885 04143
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/10956
- Council Highland
- Parish Small Isles
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Lochaber
- Former County Inverness-shire
An unroofed building is depicted on the 1st edition of the OS 6-inch map (Argyllshire, Islands of Rum, Sanday etc., 1879, sheet lxi). Two unroofed buildings are shown on the current edition of the OS 1:10000 map (1975).
Information from RCAHMS (SAH) 6 December 1996
Field Visit (May 1983)
Samhnan lnsir 2 NG 378 041 NG30SE
A well-preserved rectangular building and what are probably two earlier buildings are situated on the E side of the Allt Shamhnan lnsir 200m S of the former shepherd's cottage at Samhnan lnsir. The larger of the earlier buildings measures 7m by 2.4m within a wall 1.4m thick, while the smaller measures 6m by 2.2m within a wall 1.1m thick. The latter may have been used as an outbuilding to the later building, which measures 7.9m by 3.6m within a wall 0.9m thick and 1.5m high; it has a central entrance and two windows in the W wall and a fireplace in the N end.
RCAHMS 1983, visited May 1983
(OS 6-inch map, Island of Rum, Argyllshire, 1st ed., 1879, sheet lxi)
