31786: ORINSAY, LEWIS – TOWN (Undated)

Summary:

TOWN (Undated)
Centred on NB 364 120

Location:

NB 364 120

Full description:

NB31SE 3 centred on 364 120

A township comprising at least thirty-one unroofed buildings, all of which are annotated as Ruins and several may have attached enclosures, twelve enclosures and a head-dyke is depicted on the 1st edition of the OS 6-inch map (Ross-shire, Island of Lewis 1854, sheet 43). Twenty-four roofed, one partially roofed, eight unroofed buildings, some field walls and the fragmentary remains of the head-dyke are shown on the current edition of the OS 1:10000 map (1974).
Information from RCAHMS (SAH) 3 July 1997

Acknowledgement:

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