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MHG66374 - House/byre - North Screapadal, Raasay

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A sub rectangular drystone structure, lying on a north to south axis, measures 12.Sm by 4 m.

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Two townships named North and South Screapadal are depicted on the 1st edition of the OS 6-inch map (Inverness-shire, Isle of Skye 1881, sheet xxiv) and on the current edition of the OS 1:10000 map (1988).
Information from RCAHMS (SAH) 18 October 1996

(NG 581 443) North and South Screapadal: depopulated by 1877.
OS 6"map, Isle of Skye, Inverness-shire, 2nd ed., (1877)

North Screapadal, a depopulated township, comprises some 17 ruined houses. There are 4 small ruined boat-houses on the seashore.
There are lazy-beds in the area especially upon the higher slopes to the west.
These townships were probably depopulated by Mr Rainy of Edinburgh, who bought the island of Raasay in 1846, sending large numbers of the inhabitants abroad, and to Rona (Information from Miss Nicholson, 'Eilean Tigh', Raasay and from Mr Macleod, shoemaker, Clachan, Raasay).
Visited by OS (A S P) 12 June 1961

Fifteen unroofed buildings and a head-dyke are depicted on the 1st edition of the OS 6-inch map (Inverness-shire, Isle of Skye 1881, sheet xxiv). Nineteen unroofed buildings and a head-dyke are shown on the current edition of the OS 1:10000 map (1988).
Information from RCAHMS (SAH) 18 October 1996

An Archaeological Survey of the townships of North & South Screapadal, with a survey of the surrounding area, on Raasay was undertaken by ACFA in 1998.

Feature 15; A sub rectangular drystone structure, lying on a north to south axis, measures 12.Sm by 4 m. The walls are 0.9m thick and stand to a maximum height of 1.4m with corners rounded externally and near square internally. There is one external doorway, 0.9m wide in the east wall, Sm :from the south east comer. Internally there is a cross wall, 0.Sm north of the outside doorway and a second doorway 0.Sm wide in the cross wall. The south compartment contains a stone built platform against the west wall extending out for 2m and 0.25m high. Outside the west wall, in the gap between the wall and the excavated slope behind, a short cross wall has been built, Im long east to west, 0.9m thick and 0.7m high.

On the east side of the structure outside the doorway, there is a sub circular depression in the down slope, 4.5m by 3.7m on a north to south axis, enclosed by a low stony grass bank on the east side reaching only 0.3m maximum in height. This structure is considered to have been a combined house and byre, with the byre at the south. End and the animal stalls on the raised platform in the byre. <1>

NGR adjusted based on 2009 vertical aerial photographs. <2>

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Grid reference	Centred NG 5804 4440 (9m by 18m) (2 map features)
Map sheet	NG54SE
Geographical Area	SKYE AND LOCHALSH
Civil Parish	PORTREE

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