Monument record 2728 - SOUTH BOISDALE, SOUTH UIST

NF71NW 15.00 centred on 745 171

A crofting township comprising forty-nine roofed buildings, one of which is annotated as a Smithy, four partially roofed and twenty unroofed buildings is depicted on the 1st edition of the OS 6-inch map (Inverness-shire, Hebrides, South Uist 1881, sheet lvii).
Thirty-two roofed, three partially roofed and thirty-seven unroofed buildings are shown on the current edition of the OS 1:10000 map (1971).
Information from RCAHMS (SAH) 22 May 1997

NF71NW 15.01 centred NF7430 1722 Byre

Balds map indicates the pre-crofting settlement of South Boisdale at this location and depicts a number of buildings, some with attached enclosures. Current AP's show that the the ruins of this settlement are extant.
K.Murphy (Archaeologist CnES) 18/03/2021

William Bald, 1805, Plan of the Island of South Uist (Cartographic materials). SWE41242.