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Skye, Glasnakille
Head Dyke (Post Medieval), Township (Period Unassigned)
Site Name Skye, Glasnakille
Classification Head Dyke (Post Medieval), Township (Period Unassigned)
Alternative Name(s) Strathaird Estate
Canmore ID 119728
Site Number NG51SW 8
NGR NG 540 132
NGR Description NG 540 132 to NG 531 119
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/119728
- Council Highland
- Parish Strath
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Skye And Lochalsh
- Former County Inverness-shire
NG51SW 8 540 132 to 531 119
A township, comprising one roofed building, three unroofed buildings and three lenghts of head-dyke is depicted on the 1st edition of the OS 6-inch map (Inverness-shire, Isle of Skye 1881, sheet L). A crofting township of twenty-five roofed and two unroofed buildings is shown on the current edition of the OS 1:10000 map (1986).
Information from RCAHMS (AKK) 18 November 1996.
Site 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 5368 1299 ?Longhouse foundations.
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
