Skye, Ringill
Township (Medieval) - (Post Medieval)
Site Name Skye, Ringill
Classification Township (Medieval) - (Post Medieval)
Alternative Name(s) Strathaird Estate
Canmore ID 11422
Site Number NG51NE 11
NGR NG 5650 1786
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/11422
- Council Highland
- Parish Strath
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Skye And Lochalsh
- Former County Inverness-shire
NG51NE 11 565 178.
(NG 565 178) Unnamed depopulated area deserted before c. 1875.
OS 6"map, Isle of Skye, Inverness-shire, 1st ed., (1875)
Probably one of 8 other townships in the neighbourhood of Ceapach (Keppoch - NG51NE 10), noted as cleared in 1852.
A Mackenzie 1883.
Depopulated township comprising about 5 houses with 2 or 3 outbuildings, There is a considerable amount of lazy-bed cultivation in evidence about the township, but the whole area is badly overgrown with bracken.
Visited by OS (C F W) 16 June 1961.
Note (13 November 1996)
A small township, comprising four unroofed buildings and a field is depicted on the 1st edition of the OS 6-inch map (Inverness-shire, Isle of Skye 1881, sheet xlv). Three unroofed buildings and two enclosures are shown on the current edition of the OS 1:10560 map (1965).
Information from RCAHMS (AKK) 13 November 1996.
Field Visit (1997)
Sites recorded in the spring of 1997, during a field survey carried out by Martin Wildgoose and associates on part of the John Muir Trust's Strathaird Estate. The surveyed portion lies to the S and E of Bla Bheinn, some 3000ha of undulating lowland terrain lying between the coast and the Cuillin mountains.
NG 5656 1785 Farmstead.
NG 5660 1782 Farmstead.
NG 5660 1774 Farmstead.
A full report is lodged with the John Muir Trust. A fuller summary is lodged with the NMRS.
Sponsor: John Muir Trust.
K Miller 1998
