Skye, Isleornsay Harbour, Pier And Quay
Pier (Period Unassigned), Quay (Period Unassigned)
Site Name Skye, Isleornsay Harbour, Pier And Quay
Classification Pier (Period Unassigned), Quay (Period Unassigned)
Alternative Name(s) Isleornsay Harbour; Proposed Lighthouse; Sound Of Sleat
Canmore ID 120961
Site Number NG71SW 3
NGR NG 70301 12503
NGR Description Centred NG 70264 12507
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
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- Council Highland
- Parish Sleat
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Skye And Lochalsh
- Former County Inverness-shire
Pier, c.1805 - a drystone quay, with rare survival of hand crane and well. Various dockside buildings, restored and gentrified in the 1990s, have ball finials and architraved windows proclaiming their new status. These include
Fearann Eilean Iarmain, converted from the former Isle Ornsay General Stores of c.1812 - the 'biggest shop between Skye and Glasgow' - to a smart office, and Gallery, the former grainstore converted by Alastair Alldridge of Wittets Architects. Seaflushing lavatory, 19th century, a pyramidroofed gazebo, converted as a doocot, 1990s, but retaining its original function and fittings.
Taken from "Western Seaboard: An Illustrated Architectural Guide", by Mary Miers, 2008. Published by the Rutland Press http://www.rias.org.uk
NG71SW 3.00 centred 70264 12507
Pier [NAT]
OS 1:10,560 map, 1968.
NG71SW 3.01 NG 70312 12516 Crane
NG71SW 3.02 NG 7027 1248 Storehouse and shops
NG71SW 3.03 NG 70248 12543 Well
NG71SW 3.04 NG 70270 12576 Doocot (Dovecot)
(Location cited as NG 703 125). 19th century. A well-built drystone rubble pier, with a cast-iron wood-jib post crane at the end. At the landward end is a small 1-storey and attic rubble store.
J R Hume 1977.
The place-name Ornsay harbour presumably applies to the area between Ornsay (to the SE) and the island of Skye (to the W and NW). The 1998 edition of the OS 1:50,000 map notes Harbour [NAT] around NG 705 128.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 9 June 2004.
EXTERNAL REFERENCE:
Scottish Record Office
Proposed Lighthouse.
Feu diposition of the islet to the Commissioners of Northern Lighthouses.
1855.
GD221/44/60.
