Lewis, Ranish | Canmore

Head Dyke (Post Medieval), Township (Period Unassigned)

Site Name Lewis, Ranish

Classification Head Dyke (Post Medieval), Township (Period Unassigned)

Alternative Name(s) Ranais, Raerinish

Canmore ID 4293

Site Number NB42SW 3

NGR NB 4050 2480

NGR Description Centred on NB 4050 2480

Datum OSGB36 - NGR

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Oblique aerial view centred on the township and the remains of the buildings, taken from the NE.

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RCAHMS Aerial Photography

23/4/2005

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Oblique aerial view centred on the townships, taken from the SW.

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RCAHMS Aerial Photography

24/9/2004

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Oblique aerial view centred on the school and the remains of the buildings, taken from the WNW.

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RCAHMS Aerial Photography

23/4/2005

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Oblique aerial view centred on the township and the remains of the buildings, taken from the NNW.

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RCAHMS Aerial Photography

23/4/2005

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General oblique aerial view looking across Loch Griomsiadair and the townships towards Loch Liurboist, taken from the E.

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RCAHMS Aerial Photography

29/9/2004

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General oblique aerial view looking across Loch Griomsiadair and the townships towards Loch Liurboist, taken from the ENE.

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RCAHMS Aerial Photography

29/9/2004

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General oblique aerial view looking across Loch Griomsiadair and the townships towards Loch Liurboist, taken from the ENE.

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RCAHMS Aerial Photography

29/9/2004

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Oblique aerial view centred on the school and the remains of the buildings, taken from the NW.

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RCAHMS Aerial Photography

23/4/2005

DP 111271

General oblique aerial view of the townships of Crosbost, Ranish and Grimshader, looking towards Stornoway, Lewis, taken from the SSE.

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RCAHMS Aerial Photography Digital

16/11/2011

DP 111272

General oblique aerial view of the townships of Crosbost, Ranish and Grimshader, looking towards Stornoway, Lewis, taken from the SSE.

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RCAHMS Aerial Photography Digital

16/11/2011

SC 1692291

Oblique aerial view centred on the school and the remains of the buildings, taken from the E.

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RCAHMS Aerial Photography

23/4/2005

SC 1692442

Oblique aerial view centred on the township and the remains of the buildings, taken from the NE.

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RCAHMS Aerial Photography

23/4/2005

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Oblique aerial view centred on the townships, taken from the WSW.

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RCAHMS Aerial Photography

24/9/2004

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Lewis, Ranish, NB42SW 3, Ordnance Survey index card, Recto

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Records of the Ordnance Survey, Southampton, Hampshire, England

1958

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Oblique aerial view centred on the school and the remains of the buildings, taken from the E.

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RCAHMS Aerial Photography

23/4/2005

SC 1690856

Oblique aerial view centred on the townships, taken from the SW.

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RCAHMS Aerial Photography

24/9/2004

SC 1691109

Oblique aerial view centred on the school and the remains of the buildings, taken from the NE.

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RCAHMS Aerial Photography

23/4/2005

SC 1691113

Oblique aerial view centred on the township and the remains of the buildings, taken from the NW.

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RCAHMS Aerial Photography

23/4/2005

SC 1691114

Oblique aerial view centred on the township and the remains of the buildings, taken from the WSW.

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RCAHMS Aerial Photography

23/4/2005

SC 1691115

Oblique aerial view centred on the township and the remains of the buildings, taken from the SW.

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RCAHMS Aerial Photography

23/4/2005

SC 1967246

Aerial view of Ranais township on the S side of Loch Grimshader, Isle of Lewis, looking W.

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Papers of James Sloan Bone, landscape historian, Inverness, Highland, Scotland

6/1985

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Administrative Areas

Council Western Isles
Parish Lochs
Former Region Western Isles Islands Area
Former District Western Isles
Former County Ross And Cromarty

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Note

RCAHMS First Edition Survey Project

A township comprising sixty roofed buildings, one partially roofed building, eleven unroofed buildings, several of which are annotated as Ruins, several enclosures and a head-dyke is depicted on the 1st edition of the OS 6-inch map (Ross-shire, Island of Lewis 1854, sheet 33). Eighty-nine roofed, five partially roofed and forty-one unroofed buildings are shown on the current edition of the OS 1:10000 map (1973).

Information from RCAHMS (SAH) 25 July 1997

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