Monument record 2376 - RUBHA NA GLAODHAICH, SCARP, HARRIS

NA91SE 5 centred on 986 139

What may be a crofting township comprising at least twenty-one roofed buildings, one of which is annotated as a School, three unroofed buildings, eighteen enclosures, a burial ground and a head-dyke is depicted on the 1st edition of the OS 6-inch map (Inverness-shire, Isle of Harris 1881, sheet v). Most of the roofed buildings are arranged in six terraces aligned roughly N-S. Together with a straight pecked line which may represent a fence dividing plots of land this might be taken as an indication that this township is in the process of becoming a crofting community.
Fourteen roofed buildings, one of which is annotated as a Mission House, four partially roofed buildings, fifteen unroofed buildings, eighteen enclosures, a burial ground, a sheep wash and a head-dyke are shown on the current edition of the OS 1:10000 map (1973).
Information from RCAHMS (SAH) 19 February 1997