Skye, Achebeg

NG35NW 5 3099 5600.

This farmstead is situated at the base of a steep rocky slope on the S side of the Allt Achaidh Bhig and comprises four buildings in two groups about 100m apart, now surrounded by conifers.

The more northerly group includes two disparate buildings and their enclosures and the stance of an earlier structure, 3.9m in breadth and at least 3.8m long. The larger building, or more northerly of the two, has two compartments and is lit by two windows. It measures 13m from NE to SW by 4m transversely within walls 1m thick and 1.6m high and is entered from the NW side. The smaller building, to the S, measures 5.1m from NE to SW by 3.3m transversely within walls 0.9m thick and up to 1.2m in height with an entrance in the NE end. Both buildings are shown as roofed on the 1st edition of the Ordnance Survey map of 1880 (Island of Skye &c., Inverness-shire, 1880, sheet xvi), but only the S building is thus indicated on the Ordnance Survey map of 1904 (Island of Skye &c., Inverness-shire, 1904, sheet xvi).

The more southerly group comprises two buildings end-on to one another, of which that to the NW measures 6.1m from NW to SE by 3.7m transversely within walls 1.1m thick and 1.3m high, the corners of which are rounded on the outside and squared inside. The SE building measures 7.1m from NW to SE by 4.2m transversely within walls 0.8m thick and up to 1.8m in height. Both have entrances on the NE side, and the SE building has splayed windows to the front and back. This building is roofed on the 1st edition of the Ordnance Survey map, but not on the 2nd edition (ibid). There are traces of a related enclosure amongst the trees.

(WAT90 1102-1106)

Visited by RCAHMS (PJD) 18 November 1990.