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Oronsay
Naust (Period Unassigned)(Possible), Township (Period Unassigned)
Site Name Oronsay
Classification Naust (Period Unassigned)(Possible), Township (Period Unassigned)
Canmore ID 22314
Site Number NM55NE 8
NGR NM 590 590
NGR Description Centred on NM 590 590
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/22314
- Council Highland
- Parish Morvern
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Lochaber
- Former County Argyll
NM55NE 8.00 centred 590 590
NM55NE 8.01 6062 5871 Oronsay Farmstead
NM55NE 8.02 5968 5885 Oronsay, Loch na Droma Buidhe Township
NM55NE 8.03 5935 5925 Oronsay, Sailean nam Ba Farmstead
NM55NE 8.04 5900 5918 Oronsay, Druim Mor Township
(NM 59 59) Oronsay Island. Remains of 19 houses, mostly in the centre and E end of the island; 9 buildings in 1836. Occupied by 1801, partially cleared about 1868, remaining houses abandoned 1871-81.
P Gaskell 1968
Cruck-slots noted (at NM 597 588).
G Stell 1981
A township comprising eleven unroofed buildings, five roofed buildings, what may be a naust lying adjacent to the High Water Mark, seven enclosures, five fields and some field walls is depicted on the 1st edition of the OS 6-inch map (Argyllshire 1875, sheet xxxix). Thirteen unroofed buildings, six enclosures, one field and some field walls are shown on the current edition of the OS 1:10000 map (1974).
Information from RCAHMS (SAH) 18 May 1998.
