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Rum, Tigh Bhralie
Township (Post Medieval)
Site Name Rum, Tigh Bhralie
Classification Township (Post Medieval)
Alternative Name(s) Rhum
Canmore ID 11221
Site Number NG40SW 5
NGR NG 41823 01640
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/11221
- Council Highland
- Parish Small Isles
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Lochaber
- Former County Inverness-shire
Two unroofed buildings are depicted on the 1st edition of the OS 6-inch map (Argyllshire, Islands of Rum, Sanday etc., 1879, sheet lxi). Three 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)
Tigh Bhralie NG 418 016 NG40SW
The settlement of Tigh Bhralie comprises three buildings and two pens. The best-preserved building (7.8m by 3.3m internally) stands to wall-head height and has two window openings (one blocked, the other partly blocked) in its E wall, one on each side of a central doorway. A subrectangular building (4.2m by 2m internally) stands immediately adjacent to it, and 90m to the S there are the remains of the third building (6.4m by 2.8m internally).
RCAHMS 1983, visited May 1983
(OS 6-inch map, Island of Rum, Argyllshire, 1st ed., 1879, sheet lxi)
