Monument record 971 - Tigh nan Leachach, ELIGAR, SOUTH UIST

NF82SW 1 8129 2277.

(NF 8129 2277) Erd House (NR)
OS 6"map, Inverness-shire, 2nd ed., (1904)

An earth house,in a good state of preservation in 1914, is situated in a stony mound about 300 yards north-north-east of Loch Nan Arm.
Three circular stone chambers are on the south-western slope of the mound. They are about 8ft in diameter and the domical roofs are collapsed. From the chamber highest in the mound, an underground passage can be traced for 33ft (the first 10ft is blocked) until it enters a sub-oval beehive-shaped chamber 6ft by 5ft. The general direction of the passage is north north east.
(The Commission calls the site ' Tigh nan Leacach', House of the Stony Slope) but give no authority for the name.
RCAHMS 1928.

The earth house is traditionally associated with the Rising of 1745,
J Wedderspoon 1915.

This earthouse is generally as described by RCAHMS. The sub-oval chamber would appear to measure 6.0m x 4.0m although access cannot be gained to it. The two lower stone"chambers"on the SW slope of the mound appear to be later shielings; there are another three similar structures a few metres to the north.
Surveyed at 1/10,560.
Visited by OS (W D J) 9 May 1965.

Substantial settlement mound, with sheilings as the latest occupation, situated directly below a cliff, and with evidence of extensive and apparently well-preserved underlying structures MML February 2000

J Wedderspoon, 1906-12a, Trans Inverness Sci Soc Fld Club, 319-20 (Bibliographic reference). SWE7657.

RCAHMS, 1928, The RCAHMCS 9th Report & Inventory: Outer Hebrides, Skye and the Small Isles, 118, No. 397 (Bibliographic reference). SWE5587.