Monument record 783 - AIRIDHAN AN T-SRUTHAIN GHAIRBH, NORTH UIST

NF76NE 2 7960 6938

(NF 795 693) Airidhan an t'Sruthain Ghairbh, Guala na h'Imrich: the remains, confused by later shielings, consist of a setting of split stones in the form of an irregular square (length of sides - E 90ft, N 85ft, W 120ft, S 110-115ft) and a cairn (65ft N-S and 70ft transversely by 8ft high) which does not fill the interior but lies on the SE side of the setting and extends 10ft beyond it on the east. Towards the NW side of the cairn are possible capstones of a chamber.
Just inside the probable W line of the setting there have been a number of buildings: one is fairly complete. They have formed a stony mound and may be founded on undisturbed cairn material, but there is a gap between the mound and the main cairn to the E of it. It seems unlikely that the stone setting was ever filled with cairn material.
Visited 27 April 1962

NF 7956 6938. The cairn is as described by Henshall. Six shielings lie about the cairn and there is a seventh to the SW.
Surveyed at 1/10,560.
Visited by OS (J T T) 7 June 1965

Two unroofed shieling-huts are depicted on the 1st edition of the OS 6-inch map (Inverness-shire, Hebrides, North Uist etc. 1881, sheet xxxiv), but they are not shown on the current edition of the OS 1:10000 map (1971).
Information from RCAHMS (SAH) 25 April 1997

Erskine Beveridge, 1911, North Uist: its archaeology and topography, 252-3 (Bibliographic reference). SWE12876.

RCAHMS, 1928, The RCAHMCS 9th Report & Inventory: Outer Hebrides, Skye and the Small Isles, 78, No. 232 (Bibliographic reference). SWE5587.

A. Henshall, 1972a, The Chambered Tombs of Scotland, 518-20, UST 20 (Bibliographic reference). SWE3275.