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North Uist, Claddach-carinish

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

Site Name North Uist, Claddach-carinish

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

Alternative Name(s) Cladach-chairinis

Canmore ID 123302

Site Number NF85NE 24

NGR NF 853 590

NGR Description Centred NF 853 590

Datum OSGB36 - NGR

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Administrative Areas

  • Council Western Isles
  • Parish North Uist
  • Former Region Western Isles Islands Area
  • Former District Western Isles
  • Former County Inverness-shire

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Claddach Carinish A kelp workers' settlement, with more interesting examples of later 19th-century thatched cottages, one with a neat stone pavement to its front and a stackyard with abandoned circular stone stack stance behind; byre alongside, its corners squared off with large field boulders. Another has twisted heather rope partitions daubed with clay plaster, and a third, built c.1910, is still occupied. It has whitewashed walls and small windows tucked up close to its stone-weighted marram fringe.

Taken from "Western Seaboard: An Illustrated Architectural Guide", by Mary Miers, 2008. Published by the Rutland Press http://www.rias.org.uk

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A township comprising twenty-one roofed, eight unroofed buildings, ten enclosures and a head-dyke is depicted on the 1st edition of the OS 6-inch map (Inverness-shire, Hebrides, North & South Uist etc. 1880, sheet xlv).

Fourteen roofed, thirty unroofed buildings and several enclosures are shown on the current edition of the OS 1:10000 map (1971).

Information from RCAHMS (SAH) 7 May 1997.

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