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Skye, Bealach, Duntulm

Head Dyke (Post Medieval), Township (Period Unassigned)

Site Name Skye, Bealach, Duntulm

Classification Head Dyke (Post Medieval), Township (Period Unassigned)

Alternative Name(s) Urgag

Canmore ID 11405

Site Number NG47SW 7

NGR NG 4162 7318

Datum OSGB36 - NGR

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Oblique aerial view of the remains of the buildings and field banks, taken from the E.
Oblique aerial view of the remains of the buildings and field banks, taken from the E.Oblique aerial view of the remains of the buildings and field banks, taken from the S.Skye, Bealach, Duntulm, NG47SW 7, Ordnance Survey index card, RectoOblique aerial view of the remains of the buildings and field banks, taken from the SSE.Oblique aerial view of the remains of the buildings and field banks, taken from the ESE.Skye, Bealach, Duntulm, NG47SW 7, Ordnance Survey index card, Recto

Administrative Areas

  • Council Highland
  • Parish Kilmuir
  • Former Region Highland
  • Former District Skye And Lochalsh
  • Former County Inverness-shire

Archaeology Notes

NG47SW 7 4162 7318.

......the ruins of the home of the Martins of Bealach of which Martin Martin author of 'Description of the Western Isles, etc c.1695' was a member (S Gordon 1950).

Shown as a township in 1662 (J Blaeu 1662) and 1824 (Information from W Johnson's Map of Skye, 1824)

NG 4162 7318. The depopulated township of Bealach is situated on a shelf below high rocks at the foot of a pass. It comprises about 8 ruined houses and a few small enclosures. Lazy-beds are in evidence below the township on the valley bottom. About 300m to the NW is another group of ruined buildings comprising about 4 houses with yards.

Visited by OS (C F W) 25 April 1961.

A township, comprising five unroofed buildings and two enclosures is depicted on the 1st edition of the OS 6-inch maps (Inverness-shire, Isle of Skye 1878, sheet iv). Nine unroofed buildings and six enclosures are shown on the current edition of the OS 1:10560 map (1966).

Information from RCAHMS (AKK) 8 October 1996.

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