Skye, Luib

Luib Nineteenth century crofting and fishing village with a good group of traditional Skye dwellings, though most are now roofless. An exception is No 2, rescued and re-thatched several times in recent decades. The stoneweighted straw thatch is piended between wallhead stacks and rounded at the ridge; mudmortared rubble walls are thick and roundangled; the front is of three bays with a central House, with simplest Arts & Crafts detail. door. But like No 5, which was reconstructed as a croft house museum before recently falling derelict, its appearance today is a late 20th-century interpretation of the original.

Taken from "Western Seaboard: An Illustrated Architectural Guide", by Mary Miers, 2008. Published by the Rutland Press http://www.rias.org.uk

NG52NE 16 centred on 563 278

A crofting township comprising twenty-four roofed buildings, one of which is a long building, six unroofed buildings, their associated enclosures, field walls and a head-dyke is depicted on the 1st edition of the OS 6-inch map (Inverness-shire, Isle of Skye 1881, sheet xxxix). Approximately 200m to the N of the township (NG 567 283) are a further two unroofed buildings and one roofed building.

Sixteen roofed, one partially roofed and nine unroofed buildings, their associated enclosures, field walls and a head-dyke are shown on the current edition of the OS 1:10560 map (1968).

Information from RCAHMS (SAH) 27 November 1996