33091: AIRIGH NA GILE CARNAICH, LEWIS – SHIELING (Undated)

Summary:

SHIELING (Undated)
Sheilings, unroofed

Location:

NB 186 228

Full description:

NB12SE 4 186 228

Two shielings, built of peat moss sods and stones, inhabited for about six weeks in the summer.
Name Book, 1851

The OS 1:10,000 map of 1973 shows a single stylised shieling-hut at NB 1862 2283, with two others in the vicinity, at NB 1846 2286 and NB 1857 2302.

Two roofed shieling-huts are depicted on the 1st edition of the OS 6-inch map (Ross-shire, Island of Lewis 1853, sheet 31). Three unroofed buildings are shown on the current edition of the OS 1:10000 map (1973).
Information from RCAHMS (SAH) 13 August 1997

References:

Original Name Books of the Ordnance Survey, Name Books of the Ordnance Survey. Ross-shire, No. 86, p. 29

Acknowledgement:

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