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MHG6697 - Crofting township - Harrapool

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A crofting township comprising sixty-seven roofed buildings, which include a manse, a church and a disused corn mill, four partially roofed buildings and six unroofed buildings is depicted on the 1st edition of the OS 6-inch map (Inverness-shire, Isle of Skye 1881, sheet xlvi). Ninety-one roofed buildings, two of which are churches and one of which is a manse, five partially roofed buildings and thirteen unroofed buildings are shown on the current edition of the OS 1:10000 map (1986).
Information from RCAHMS (SAH) 3 December 1996

In 1799 Lord Macdonald commissioned John Blackadder to survey his estate at Strath and to write a report about it. Blackadder returned 10 years later when Lord Macdonald had decided to change the runrig system on his estate to crofting. Blackadder produced a series of maps usually with at least one map for each township. He showed the existing land (arable, pasture etc) as colour washes, and also most of the settlement. He then added the layout of the new crofts in red ink. It is noticeable that the new crofts usually did not incorporate all the arable land in each township. The boundary of the new regular crofting township of Harrapool is shown on Blackadder's map to include the whole area of the former runrig system township with its more dispersed settlement pattern (see MHG27842) but the crofts themselves were now all focused on the area immediately adjacent to the coast to the north, where a previous survey by Matthew Scobie in 1766 had shown relatively little actual settlement. <1> <2>

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Grid reference	Centred NG 6534 2284 (1396m by 889m)
Map sheet	NG62SE
Geographical Area	SKYE AND LOCHALSH
Civil Parish	STRATH

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