33051: TOM NI BHARABHAIS, LEWIS – SHIELING (Undated), BATTLEFIELD (Undated)

Summary:

SHIELING (Undated)
BATTLEFIELD (Undated)
Shielings, battlefield

Location:

NB 158 251

Full description:

NB12NE 1 158 251

Tom Ni Bharabhais: A small, round, rocky pasture hill on which is the rim of a shieling. Tradition says that the people of Uig went down and stole some cattle from the people of Barvas. On their return the people of Barvas overtook them on this hill, on which a battle took place.
Name Book 1854

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 30), but they are not shown on the current edition of the OS 1:10000 map (1973).
Information from RCAHMS (SAH) 14 August 1997

References:

Original Name Books of the Ordnance Survey, Name Books of the Ordnance Survey. Book No. 83, p. 72

Acknowledgement:

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