Monument record 2086 - GOIRTEIN, BARRA

NL69NW 21.01 634 980

T121: Two adjacent grassed-over mounds, c. 2m diameter, against line of orthostat wall. Primary clearance cairns?
K Branigan and F Foster 1995.

(previously recorded as NL69NW 24)
NL6351 9805, 6347 9806, 6356 9801 and 6356 9803,
T126: (NL 6351 9805) Rectangular enclosure, c. 35 x 25m, with medium size stones in residual low bank; gap/entrance on E.
T125: (NL 6347 9806) To W, oval clearance cairn, 3.5 x 1.5m.
T128: (NL 6356 9801) To SE, second clearance cairn, also oval, 5 x 3m.
T127: (NL 6356 9803) N of T128, type A shelter represented by D-shaped stone setting, 4m across.
K Branigan and P Foster 1995

(previously recorded as NL69NW 34)
NL6350 9811, T138: Irregular, mainly orthostatic, stone boundary enclosing an irregular area, 45 x 40m, and abutting the substantial sheep wall running across the valley above Goirtein settlement (NL69NW 19).
K Branigan and P Foster 1995

A small township comprising six unroofed buildings and part of a head-dyke is depicted on the 1st edition of the OS 6-inch map (Inverness-shire, Hebrides, Barra etc. 1880, sheet lxiv). One unroofed building with a short length of wall attached to it, and the head-dyke are shown on the current edition of the OS 1:10000 map (1971).
Information from RCAHMS (SAH) 17 June 1997

K. Brannigan & P. Foster, 1995, Barra: archaeological research on Ben Tangaval from the end of the Ice Age to the Crofting Commissio, 40 (Bibliographic reference). SWE33223.