Rum, Camas Pliasgaig
Township (Period Unassigned)
Site Name Rum, Camas Pliasgaig
Classification Township (Period Unassigned)
Alternative Name(s) Rhum
Canmore ID 11220
Site Number NG40SW 4
NGR NG 402 023
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/11220
- Council Highland
- Parish Small Isles
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Lochaber
- Former County Inverness-shire
NG40SW 4 402 023.
The settlement of Camas Pliasgaig comprises the remains of seven buildings situated on a spur between two streams; an eighth building lies on the shore, 70m to the NE. The buildings vary in size from 3.2m by 1.8m to 9.3m by 3.7m internally. Around the settlement, particularly on the W, there are traces of rig-and-furrow cultivation.
It is probably one of the 'little hamlets' noted by Pennant in 1772 and appears on the maps of Langlands and Thomson.
Visited by RCAHMS May 1983.
T Pennant 1774; G Langlands 1801; J Thomson 1824; RCAHMS 1983
