Monument record 3029 - EOROPIE, LEWIS

NB56NW 9 centred on 5175 6500

A linear crofting township, comprising twenty-five roofed, five unroofed buildings of which three are annotated as 'Ruin', nine enclosures and a head-dyke is depicted on the 1st edition of the OS 6-inch map (Island of Lewis, Ross-shire 1853, sheet 1). The present crofting township with its field-system to the N is shown on the current edition of the OS 1:10000 map (1992).
Information fom RCAHMS (AKK) 13 March 1997

The Object Name Book (OS) describes the township as 'a village of huts built of stone and clay, and thatched with straw. It is the most northerly village in the Lewis, situated on a patch of good arable land, which is very much impoverished by the sand being blown over it from the shore in stormy weather. These huts are apparently the most wrethced in the lewis, they are like the others, filled with dung for nine months of the year; and during the other three, they are often filled with sand.
OS Name Book 1952
quoted by Shaw, 2007, 1-36-37

Claire Shaw, Jacobs, 2007, Eoropie Waste Water Treatment Works, Outfall, Access road and Replacement Sewer (Unpublished document). SWE41155.