Monument record 2546 - GRAMSDALE, BENBECULA

NF85NW 18 centred on NF 816 555

A crofting township comprising four roofed buildings, one of which is annotated as a School, and fourteen unroofed buildings is depicted on the 1st edition of the OS 6-inch map (Inverness-shire, Hebrides, North & South Uist etc. 1880, sheet xliv). Thirteen roofed and four unroofed buildings are shown on the current edition of the OS 1:10000 map (1972).
Information from RCAHMS (SAH) 6 May 1997

Gramisdale post-medieval township, featured a drystone, roofless building at NGR 8133 5567, aligned northeast to southwest, 6.12 x 5.09m. Its walls survived to 1.3m in height, and it was being used as a sheepfold, quite probably its original function. 1.2m to the southeast stood a building platform measuring 10m x 8m, and aligned north to south, and composed of a single course of drystone gneiss boulders.
Fyles 2006,7

Chris Fyles, SUAT Ltd, 2006, Archaeological Walkover Survey, AIRD, Benbecula (Unpublished document). SWE41084.