North Uist, Baleshare, Balilleray
Field System (Period Unassigned), Head Dyke (Post Medieval), School (Period Unassigned), Township (Period Unassigned)
Site Name North Uist, Baleshare, Balilleray
Classification Field System (Period Unassigned), Head Dyke (Post Medieval), School (Period Unassigned), Township (Period Unassigned)
Alternative Name(s) Illeray
Canmore ID 120874
Site Number NF76SE 23.01
NGR NF 783 627
NGR Description Centred NF 783 627
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
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- Council Western Isles
- Parish North Uist
- Former Region Western Isles Islands Area
- Former District Western Isles
- Former County Inverness-shire
NF76SE 23.01 centred 783 627
(NF 783 627) Balilleray: settlement depopulated before 1882.
OS 6" map, Inverness-shire, 1st ed., (1882)
(Previously recorded as NF76SE 23) There are the remains of at least forty-three buildings with associated enclosures at Balilleray, ranging from 11.0m by 4.0m to 5.0m by 3.0m, up to 1.3m high. Several stages of desertion, all thought to be post-1845, can be recognised, from the earliest round-ended buildings, now showing as turf-covered banks less than 0.5m high, to quite recent, 19th century, structures with chimneys and fireplaces. The village has not been occupied within living memory: the name is correct.
Visited by OS (J T T) 1 June 1965
A township comprising four roofed buildings, one of which is a school, two partially roofed buildings, twenty-seven unroofed buildings, a field system and a head-dyke is depicted on the 1st edition of the OS 6-inch map (Inverness-shire, Hebrides, North Uist 1882, sheet xxxix). Three roofed, one partially roofed, eighteen unroofed buildings and part of the field-system are shown on the current edition of the OS 1:10000 map (1971).
Information from RCAHMS (SAH) 29 April 1997.
