Rum, Samhnan Insir, Glac Mhor
Farmstead (Post Medieval)
Site Name Rum, Samhnan Insir, Glac Mhor
Classification Farmstead (Post Medieval)
Alternative Name(s) Rhum
Canmore ID 10992
Site Number NG30SE 7
NGR NG 37376 04331
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/10992
- Council Highland
- Parish Small Isles
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Lochaber
- Former County Inverness-shire
(NG 3740 0435) Three unroofed buildings and an unroofed structure 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).
Information from RCAHMS (SAH) 6 December 1996
Field Visit (May 1983)
Glac Mhor, Samhnan lnsir NG 373 043 NG30SE
Occupying a terrace on the N side of an unnamed stream 450m W of Samhnan lnsir, there is an abandoned farmstead comprising three buildings and an enclosure. The W building is a roofless 19th-century cottage. The central building is a drystone cottage with rounded outer angles measuring 8.3m by 3.7m within a wall 1 m thick and up to 1.5m high; the doorway is on the S. The remaining cottage is of drystone construction with rounded angles and measures 7m by 3.2m within a wall 1.1m thick and up to 1.6m high; there is a buttress on the Wend. The doorway is in the E half of the S wall and it is flanked by a single window on each side. There is an aumbry in the E gable, and on the N wall five cruck-slots can be seen about 1m above the present floor level.
RCAHMS 1983, visited May 1983
(OS 6-inch map, Island of Run, Argyllshire, 1st ed., 1879, sheet lxi)
