Monument record 543 - GREIAN, BARRA

NF60SE 3.00 centred on 673 035

NF60SE 3.01 NF 6760 0292 Farmstead; Shieling-huts
Information from RCAHMS (SAH) 4 December 1997

A scattered area of depopulation extends along the narrow valley between NF 6630 0310 and NF 6734 0250. There are the remains of nineteen rectangular buildings with associated drystone enclosures. The buildings, most of which have rounded corners internally, vary in size from 18.5m, b 5.5m to 4.2m by 3.0m, with drystone walls up to 1.3m high. The walls of the largest building are 1.5m wide.
There is no name to embrace the whole area but the name 'Garaluachrach' (NF 6676 0284) still applies to the centre of the area (Information from A MacDonald).
The date of the evictions in the area is c.1832.
Revised at 1/2500
Visited by OS (W D J) 29 May 1965

Eleven roofed buildings, which include a church and a manse, two partially roofed buildings, thirty-five unroofed buildings, two of which are long buildings, several enclosures and a fragment of head-dyke are depicted on the 1st edition of the OS 6-inch map (Inverness-shire, Hebrides, Barra 1881, sheet lxii). Five unroofed buildings, an enclosure and some sheep pens are shown on the current edition of the OS 1:10000 map (1973).
Information from RCAHMS (SAH) 2 June 1997

WE9732 (smr 543) is located on SMR map close to line of survey corridor, but seems to conflate two separate areas: the depopulated valley between NF 6630 0310 and NF 6734 0252 along the Abhainn Mhuileann Comhnuill, associated with the name Garadh Luachrach; and settlements of Cuier and Greian on the south and north banks of Abhainn Cuier respectively
Knott 2001, 19

Carol Knott, 2001, Barra & Vatersay Survey, Western Isles (Unpublished document). SWE41119.