Skye, Lower Halistra

NG25NW 9 centred 242 594

The crofting township of Lower Halistra was created during the first half of the 19th century and may be identified as that block of land lying to the SW of the Trumpan road and NW of the Allt na Claise Moire. From the 1st edition of the OS 6-inch map (Island of Skye &c., Inverness-shire 1880,sheet ix) it is evident that it was bounded to the NW by a wall, which ran from NG 2433 5985 to the sea at NG 2379 5942.

In the 20th century a new set of crofts was added to the NW of this wall, most of which are still occupied, but one group of buildings (some of them roofed at the time of the 1st edition (op.cit.)), in a croft immediately beyond the wall have been abandoned and are included in this record (see 9.08).

(Numbers in brackets refer to Dbase disc data, available as MS )

9.01 NG 2437 5980 Farmstead (64-5, 143)

9.02 NG 2447 5968 Farmstead (67-8, 144)

9.03 NG 2427 5939 Farmstead (69-71, 145)

9.04 NG 2447 5944 Farmstead (72-3, 146)

9.05 NG 2461 5955 Farmstead (74-5, 147)

9.06 NG 2409 5943 Farmstead (77-8)

9.07 NG 2418 5937 Building (79)

9.08 NG 242 598 Buildings (184-7)

9.09 NG 241 590 Harbour

9.10 NG 244 597 Croft: House and Byre

{1:10,000 map overlay of survey information is available on request}

Visited by RCAHMS (PJD) 1 October 1990.

A crofting township, comprising seventeen roofed and six unroofed buildings is depicted on the 1st edition of the OS 6-inch map (Inverness-shire, Isle of Skye 1881, sheet ix). Seventeen roofed and eleven unroofed buildings are shown on the current edition of the OS 1:10560 map (1965).

Information from RCAHMS (AKK) 6 November 1996.