33047: AIRIGHEAN TIGHE DUASTAL, LEWIS – SHIELING (Undated)

Summary:

SHIELING (Undated)
Shielings

Location:

NB 0997 2128

Full description:

NB02SE 1 0997 2128

(NB 099 212) ‘Six shielings, two of which are in ruins…’ Thomas illustrates and plans one of these, still occupied c. 1867.
Name Book 1854; F W L Thomas 1870

Four roofed shieling-huts and two unroofed shieling-huts, which are annotated as Ruins, are depicted on the 1st edition of the OS 6-inch map (Ross-shire, Island of Lewis 1854, sheet 35). Five black dots which may indicate the location of unroofed buildings are shown on the current edition of the OS 1:10000 map (1973).
Information from RCAHMS (SAH) 15 July 1997

References:

Original Name Books of the Ordnance Survey, Name Books of the Ordnance Survey. Book No. 98, p. 40
1866-8. ‘On the primitive dwellings and hypogea of the Outer Hebrides’, Proc Soc Antiq Scot. Part No 7. 161-2, fig. 9

Acknowledgement:

Information provided by Western Isles Council Sites & Monuments Record, January 2006.