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Skye, Earlish
Head Dyke (Post Medieval), Township (Period Unassigned)
Site Name Skye, Earlish
Classification Head Dyke (Post Medieval), Township (Period Unassigned)
Canmore ID 114758
Site Number NG36SE 16.02
NGR NG 389 612
NGR Description Centred NG 389 612
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/114758
- Council Highland
- Parish Snizort
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Skye And Lochalsh
- Former County Inverness-shire
Note
A crofting township comprising seventy-four roofed, one partially roofed and seventeen unroofed buildings and their associated enclosures and field walls is depicted on the 1st edition of the OS 6-inch map (Inverness-shire, Island of Skye 1880, sheet x). The township is defined to the N and E by a head-dyke which separates it from South Cuil to the N. The boundary to the S is defined by Allt Yelkie.
Fifty-eight roofed, two partially roofed and twenty unroofed buildings, their associated enclosures and field walls and a head-dyke are shown on the current edition of the OS 1:10560 map (1968).
Information from RCAHMS (SAH), 8 October 1996.
