Monument record 13271 - LEWIS, LINSHADER

NB23SW 48 centred on 2080 3190

A township, comprising one roofed building, fourteen unroofed buildings and eleven enclosures is depicted on the 1st edition of the OS 6-inch map (Island of Lewis, Ross-shire 1853, sheet 25). The township appears to have been cleared for the farm of Linshader which is also shown as six roofed buildings, three of which surround a courtyard at NB 2108 3195. In addition, an extensive system of head-dykes (NB 213 306 to NB 194 313), which lies to S and W of the township and is conjoined with the head-dyke systems to the S (NB22NW 23) and to the W (NB13SE 49).
The farmstead was in turn replaced by a scattered crofting township, comprising sixteen roofed buildings, one of which is a church, and eight unroofed buildings as shown on the current edition of the OS 1:10000 map (1974). Some lengths of head-dyke are also marked.
Information from RCAHMS (AKK) 29 September 1997.
REPORT DATE: 25/01/2002