Skye, Buaile Mhor
Sheepfold (Period Unassigned)
Site Name Skye, Buaile Mhor
Classification Sheepfold (Period Unassigned)
Canmore ID 311806
Site Number NG61SE 45
NGR NG 69516 10169
NGR Description Centre of site
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/311806
- Council Highland
- Parish Sleat
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Skye And Lochalsh
- Former County Inverness-shire
A drystone sheepfold measuring c42m x c24m lies in a narrow depression between two small knolls, c500m NNE of the the N shore of Camas Bharabhaig. A pre-afforestation survey by Martin Wildgoose in February 2002 recorded a small drystone building and enclosure (site K) c 30m SW of the sheepfold . The building measures 9m x 5m over walls spread to 1.5m thick and is aligned NW - SE, with an entrance in the centre of the SW wall. The enclosure lies between the building and the sheepfold and measures 42m NW-SE x 24m NE-SW.
Aerial photographs show another larger enclosure, measuring c40m x c50m, lying immediately to the SW of the building and enclosure. There may also be other features here which have been damaged by recent tree planting and mounding.
Information from Ishbel MacKinnon, July 2011.
