Monument record 1048 - TIGH CLOICHE, MARROGH, NORTH UIST

NF86NW 1 8330 6960.

(NF 8300 6960) Tigh Cloiche (NR)
OS 6"map, Inverness-shire, 2nd ed., (1903)

Tigh Cloiche, a chambered cairn at Marrogh, 70ft in diameter by 14ft high and little disturbed, has a peristalith of upright stones and has had a small funnel-shaped forecourt on the ESE side. The passage, of massive masonry, is almost intact but E Beveridge (1911) noted that the central circular chamber had been ransacked and only a fragment of wood charcoal could be found.
E Beveridge 1911; Information from MS of A S Henshall's 'Chambered Tombs of Scotland' Vol. 2, 50-52 (plan).

Tigh Cloiche is as described and planned by Henshall. Nine shielings, some circular and some rectangular, lie around the cairn, some intruding into the peristalith.
Surveyed at 1/10,560.
Visited by OS (J T T) 8 June 1965.

Erskine Beveridge, 1911, North Uist: its archaeology and topography, 248-9 (Bibliographic reference). SWE12876.

RCAHMS, 1928, The RCAHMCS 9th Report & Inventory: Outer Hebrides, Skye and the Small Isles, 75, No. 225 (Bibliographic reference). SWE5587.

A. Henshall, 1972a, The Chambered Tombs of Scotland, 522-4, UST 24 plan (Bibliographic reference). SWE3275.