[intro]These buildings are not part of the East or West Townships - the land was worked as a sub-tenancy. You’ll have to imagine walls rising to a thatched roof, glass in the windows, and an interior similar to those you saw in Martin’s House or...
[intro] This is the ruin of Taigh MhicCoiseim: a one room house with a small byre, surrounded by an enclosed kailyard. It sits outside the dyke around the East Township. This could mean that when the McCosham family arrived they were seen as outsiders, not part...
[intro] The roads in the township have been used for hundreds of years. They are narrow and unevenly-surfaced, made of earth, rocks, and crushed stone packed down hard. In the past, before cars, buses and lorries, all roads outside towns were like this.[/intro] [details] Until the 18th...
[intro] For much of the 19th century, this was home to Isabella McCallum, known as Bell a’Phuill. She was thought to be the “wise-woman” of the township, skilled in first-aid and able to make and use medicines from plants to treat sickness and injuries.[/intro] [details] The wise-woman...
[intro] On the other side of the main road you can see Building Y. This is a threshing barn. It was home to the tractor in the early 1960s, and was one of the last buildings used for farming – in the late 1960s, Willie Weir...