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MHG21817 - Farmstead - Galmisdale, Isle of Eigg

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Located south west of NM48SE 28, Galmisdale, Old Inn

To the SW of Galmisdale House there are the remains of a township comprising at least eleven buildings and four small enclosures. Most of the buildings are clustered together on the S side of the modern track at NM 47387 84022, but there are four outliers; two (EIGG01 246-7) stand 25m apart some 150m W of the main group, a third (EIGG01 245) stands on its own 150m to the SW and the fourth outlier (EIOGG01 493) stands 100m to the E. Several of the buildings have been severely robbed, and are now reduced to rectangular stances or short stretches of walling; in the eight examples where measurements can be taken the buildings range from 6m to 10.4m in length by 3m to 3.7m in breadth within rubble walls standing up to 0.4m in height.

William Bald's 1806 map of Eigg depicts a cluster of buildings in this area, grouped around Galmisdale House. It is one of two settlements shown on the farm of Galmisdale; the other, to the NE, is described under NM48SE XX. The 1st edition of the OS 6-inch map (Inverness-shire, Island of Eigg 1880, sheet lxxiii) depicts three buildings, two roofed and one unroofed, which correspond with three of the ruined structures in the main group described above. The 2nd edition of the OS map (1903) depicts one roofed and one partly-roofed building here. Neither OS map shows any of the outlying buildings noted above. Finally, there is an associated field system lying to the SE of the two townships.
(EIGG01 243-7, 264, 492-3)
Visited by RCAHMS (MFTR) 15 May 2001 and (AGCH) 11 October 2002

NOTE: Historic Environment Scotland have merged their record for the entire Galmisdale township (see MHG27303) with this farmstead record and have cancelled their original township record. Both records have been retained here in the Highland HER but both now have the same link to the single record on Canmore.

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Grid reference	Centred NM 4736 8401 (100m by 100m) (2 map features)
Map sheet	NM48SE
Civil Parish	SMALL ISLES
Geographical Area	LOCHABER

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