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MHG5591 - Glac Mhor, Samhnan Insir, Rhum

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NG30SE 7 373 043

Occupying a terrace on the N side of an unnamed stream 450m W of Samhnan Insir, there is an abandoned farmstead comprising three buildings and an enclosure. The W building is a roofless 19th-century cottage. The central building is a drystone cottage with rounded outer angles measuring 8.3m by 3.7m within a wall 1m thick and up to 1.5m high; the doorway is on the S. The remaining cottage is of drystone construction with rounded angles and measures 7m by 3.2m within a wall 1.1m thick and up to 1.6m high; there is a buttress on the W end. The doorway is in the E half of the S wall and it is flanked by a single window on each side. There is an aumbry in the E gable, and on the N wall five cruck-slots can be seen about 1m above the present floor level.
Visited by RCAHMS May 1983

(NG 3740 0435) Three unroofed buildings and an unroofed structure are depicted on the 1st edition of the OS 6-inch map (Argyllshire, Islands of Rum, Sanday etc., 1879, sheet lxi) and on the current edition of the OS 1:10000 map (1975).
Information from RCAHMS (SAH) 6 December 1996

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Grid reference	Centred NG 3734 0433 (210m by 139m) (2 map features)
Map sheet	NG30SE
Civil Parish	SMALL ISLES
Geographical Area	LOCHABER

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