Skye, Uig
Township (Period Unassigned)
Site Name Skye, Uig
Classification Township (Period Unassigned)
Canmore ID 114790
Site Number NG15SE 64
NGR NG 1956 5249
NGR Description Centred on NG 1956 5249
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
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- Council Highland
- Parish Duirinish
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Skye And Lochalsh
- Former County Inverness-shire
Uig (from Norse: 'Ogr' meaning bay). Fishing and crofting township strung round a steepish-sided bay, its focus today the unprepossessing adjuncts of a CalMac ferry port.
Taken from "Western Seaboard: An Illustrated Architectural Guide", by Mary Miers, 2008. Published by the Rutland Press http://www.rias.org.uk
NG15SE 64 centred on 193 527
A crofting township, comprising twenty roofed, four unroofed buildings and a head-dyke is depicted on the 1st edition of the OS 6-inch maps (Inverness-shire, Isle of Skye 1880, sheet xiv). Twelve roofed and nineteen unroofed buildings are shown on the current edition of the OS 1:10560 map (1968).
Information from RCAHMS (AKK) 10 October 1996
