Monument record 3794 - SIDHEAN CHUIRISEAL, LEWIS

NB41SW 4 410 112

A farmstead comprising six unroofed buildings, which are all annotated as Ruins and one has an attached enclosure, and a head-dyke are depicted on the 1st edition of the OS 6-inch map (Ross-shire, Island of Lewis 1854, sheet 43). One unroofed building with an attached incomplete enclosure and a head-dyke are shown on the current edition of the OS 1:10000 map (1973).
Information from RCAHMS (SAH) 3 July 1997

Gearraidh Chuiriseal
The relatively well-preserved remains of a stone house and outbuildings (recorded as Structure A on the survey) are still visible, joined to a large, turf and stone enclosure. The house is 6 x 3m internally, with 1m thick walls and rounded corners, orientated north-east to south-west. It is entered from the south-east by a door to the enclosure, which probably a garden. Joined onto the northern end of the house is a small, square building, 2.5 x 2.5m internally, and built onto the south wall of that building, and outside the garden wall, are the remains of a circular structure with an enterance opening to the south-west. Inside the circular structure are several niches built into the northern wall, which suggest it may originally have been a shieling.
Barrowman et al. 2003 p44

Sidhean Chuiriseal
This settlement is within the boundaries of the farmstead Gearraidh Chuiriseal
Structure B
This is a small, square, stone setting 2 x 2m in size, built against a rock outscrop, c. 25m east of the farm buildings
Structure C
This is a group of ephemeral wall lines and stone settings, with little coherent structure, adjacent to another rock outcrop to the east of structure B. A small, oval, stone setting, 1 x 0.5m in size, formed a roughly circular hollow adjacent to the rock, with a possible channel leading out from it to the south-west. This was roughly enclosed by the remains of a right-angled turf and stone wall, 1m thick, which started from the outcrop of the north of the stone setting, then turned to the south. A pile of stone lay outside, and to the west of, this w
all line.
Structure D
This is the remains of a circular building adjacent to a further rock outcrop to the south of structure C, and on the lower terrace. It is c. 2m in internal diameter, with a possible enterance to the south-west, and the remains of niches built into the north-eastern face of the wall. A heap of stones c. 3m in diameter lies immediately to the east of this building. This is the remains of a shieling building.
Barrowman et al. 2003 p44 - 45