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MHG4820 - Score Horan

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NG25NE 5 284 596.

(NG 284 596) Score Horan: apparently occupied 1875-8 (OS 6"map, Inverness-shire, 1st ed.) deserted before 1901 (OS 6"map, 2nd ed.) Visited by OS (AC) 24 January 1961.

Score Horan, a depopulated township consisting of 28 ruined houses, several outbuildings, and about 7 enclosures. Lazy-beds are evident along the raised beach and higher up the slopes to the SE.
Visible on RAF air photographs CPE/Scot/UK/273: 4150-1
Visited by OS (ASP) 4 May 1961.

This township is situated below a range of imposing cliffs, along a raised beach in the bay of Loch Losait on the E side of Waternish to the ESE of Gillen. Although much of the area has been afforested many of the structures depicted on the first and second editions of the OS 6-inch maps of 1880 and 1904 (Island of Skye &c., Inverness-shire 1880, 1904, sheet ix) have been preserved in clearings. Two clusters of structures were not located at the date of visit and may have been afforested. A scatter of isolated buildings along with extensive cultivation ridges is visible on aerial photographs (CPE/Scot/UK.273 Nos. 4150-1) along the shore and higher up the slopes to the E. A boat naust is situated at the high water mark in the bay.

5.01 NG 2795 5955 Boat naust (820)
5.02 NG 2812 5950 Buildings; Enclosures (830-847)
5.03 NG 284 595 Buildings; Enclosures (818-819); 821-829)
5.04 NG 284 595 Cultivation remains

Visited by RCAHMS (DCC) 18 November 1990.

A township, comprising one roofed building, twenty-nine unroofed buildings and three enclosures is depicted on the 1st edition of the OS 6-inch map (Inverness-shire, Isle of Skye 1880, sheet ix). Twenty-nine unroofed buildings and five enclosures are shown on the current edition of the OS 1:10000 map (1983).
Information from RCAHMS (AKK) 11 November 1996.

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Grid reference	Centred NG 2816 5956 (565m by 436m) (2 map features)
Map sheet	NG25NE
Geographical Area	SKYE AND LOCHALSH
Civil Parish	DUIRINISH

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