Rum, Camas Pliasgaig
Township (18th Century)
Site Name Rum, Camas Pliasgaig
Classification Township (18th Century)
Alternative Name(s) Rhum
Canmore ID 11220
Site Number NG40SW 4
NGR NG 4023 0236
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
Field Visit (May 1983)
Camas Pliasgaig NG 402 023 NG40SW
The settlement of Camas Pliasgaig comprises the remains of seven rectangular buildings situated on a spur between two small 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.
RCAHMS 1983, visited May 1983
(Pennant 1774, 278; Langlands 1801; Thomson 1824)
