Monument record 1496 - BRUERNISH, BARRA

NF70SW 35 centred on 721 025

NF7217 0239, A21: Blackhouse, 8 x 5m, rounded corners, much robbed.
NMRS MS 595/7, 5

(previously recorded as NF70SW 36)
NF7226 0240, A22: Blackhouse, 10 x 5m, large boulder walls.
NMRS MS 595/7, 5

(previously recorded as NF70SW 37)
NF7227 0245, A23: house, 8 x 5m, with doors in S and W walls.
NMRS MS 595/7, 5

(previously recorded as NF70SW 38)
NF 7229 0250, A24: Blackhouse, 8.5 x 5m, door in centre of S wall and small 'cupboard' built into SW corner.
NMRS MS 595/7, 5

(previously recorded as NF70SW 39)
NF7234 0254, A25: Boathouse ? next to jetty, 3 x 5m, largely destroyed.
NMRS MS 595/7, 5

(previously recorded as NF70SW 40)
NF7236 0260, A26: House with collapsed front and rear walls; end walls of stone, one with chimney.
NMRS MS 595/7, 5

(previously recorded as NF70SW 41)
NF722 026, A28: NF 7219 0261 house, 6 x 5m, with central doorway and small lean-to shed to one side of doorway. A second house (A27) to N, at NF 7220 0268.
NMRS MS 595/7, 5

(previously recorded as NF70SW 42)
NF7217 0259, A29: enclosure ?, 6 x 5m, comprised of stone wall and rock outcrop, the angle enclosed by an L-shaped turf wall.
NMRS MS 595/7, 5

(previously recorded as NF70SW 43)
NF7213 0266, A30: Small house, 6 x 3m, walls 0.4 high, door at corner.
NMRS MS 595/7, 5

(previously recorded as NF70SW 44)
NF7202 0274, A31: L-shaped house, 14 x 5m, divided into two rooms with separate entrances. Walls stand to window height.
NMRS MS 595/7, 6

(previously recorded as NF70SW 45)
NF7210 0285, A32: Two roomed building, 9 x 5m, with two separate doorways and smaller room slightly set back from front wall line.
NMRS MS 595/7, 6

A township comprising one unroofed, two partially roofed and seventeen roofed buildings, one of which is a long building, is depicted on the 1st edition of the OS 6-inch map (Inverness-shire, Hebrides, Barra 1881, sheet lxiii). Seven unroofed, thirteen roofed buildings and some walls are shown on the current edition of the OS 1:10000 map (1971).
Information from RCAHMS (SAH) 17 June 1997

Also in Branigan and Foster 2000, 12

Keith Branigan & Patrick Foster, 2000, From Barra to Berneray: Archaeological Survey and Excavation in the Southern Isles ..., 12 (Bibliographic reference). SWE41033.