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Skye, Dunvegan, Giant Mckaskill Museum
Museum (19th Century) - (20th Century)
Site Name Skye, Dunvegan, Giant Mckaskill Museum
Classification Museum (19th Century) - (20th Century)
Canmore ID 285871
Site Number NG24NE 30.01
NGR NG 25284 47609
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/285871
- Council Highland
- Parish Duirinish
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Skye And Lochalsh
- Former County Inverness-shire
Field Visit (16 October 2014)
NG 25284 47609 Renovated croft building, currently used as a museum dedicated to Angus MacAskill and established in 1989. The roof of the building has a top-coat of straw thatch, with a continuous straw ridge. The thatch is missing in a few patches across the roof, particularly down the skews and along the ridge, exposing what appears to be timber and a corrugated roof covering. Underneath the missing thatch along the ridge, much of the metal ridge beneath can be seen. The roof has been entirely netted, including across the ridge, and weighted at the eaves by stones hung from the netting by wire. There is some vegetation growth in places across the surface of the thatch and patches of thatch missing throughout, exposing the roof structure underneath.
Visited by Zoe Herbert (SPAB) 16 October 2014, survey no.110
