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Skye, Keppoch
Head Dyke (Post Medieval), Township (Period Unassigned)
Site Name Skye, Keppoch
Classification Head Dyke (Post Medieval), Township (Period Unassigned)
Alternative Name(s) Ceapach; Strathaird Estate; Allt Na Nigheidh
Canmore ID 11421
Site Number NG51NE 10
NGR NG 559 184
NGR Description Centred NG 559 184
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/11421
- Council Highland
- Parish Strath
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Skye And Lochalsh
- Former County Inverness-shire
NG51NE 10 centred 559 184.
(NG 559 184) From the township of Ceapach no less than 44 families were evicted in 1852, (A Mackenzie 1883) with evidence of near total depopulation by 1875 (OS 6"map, Isle of Skye, Inverness-shire, 1st ed.,). By 1901 the name had become Keppoch (OS 6"map, 2nd ed.).
A Mackenzie 1883.
Keppoch or Ceapach depopulated township comprises about 23 ruined houses and outbuildings Some stand nearly to the wall heads but a good many have been used as a quarry for building material. The township straddles a shallow valley about 250' OD, and the layout is that of an improvements township with regularly laid out crofts.
Visited by OS (C F W) 16 June 1961.
A crofting township, comprising three roofed, twenty-four unroofed buildings, one partially roofed building, six enclosures and a head-dyke is depicted on the 1st edition of the OS 6-inch map (Inverness-shire, Isle of Skye 1881, sheet xlv). Two partially roofed, thirty-one unroofed buildings, four enclosures and the head-dyke are shown on the current edition of the OS 1:10560 map (1965).
Information from RCAHMS (AKK) 13 November 1996.
Sites recorded in the spring of 1997, during a field survey carried out by Martin Wildgoose and associates on part of the John Muir Trust's Strathaird Estate. The surveyed portion lies to the S and E of Bla Bheinn, some 3000ha of undulating lowland terrain lying between the coast and the Cuillin mountains.
NG 5592 1829 Farmstead.
NG 5592 1816 Farmstead.
NG 5578 1816 Farmstead.
NG 5583 1810 Cairn.
NG 5561 1808 Farmstead
NG 5589 1860 Small stone cells (2)
NG 5556 1828 Kiln
NG 5589 1839 (centre) Houses (18); byres (10); pens (4); enclosures (2); platform; quarry (Keppoch). (NG51NE 10)
A full report is lodged with the John Muir Trust. A fuller summary is lodged with the NMRS.
Sponsor: John Muir Trust.
K Miller 1998
