Monument record 12073 - Seann Bhaile

NB24NE 33.01 centred on 2500 4750

A township, comprising one roofed building, thirty-three unroofed buildings and a number of enclosures is depicted on the 1st edition of the OS 6-inch map (Island of Lewis Ross-shire 1853, sheet 7). Four unroofed buildings and seventeen enclosures some of which may be unroofed buildings are shown on the current edition of the OS 1:10000 map (1974).
Information from RCAHMS (AKK) 23 January 1997.
REPORT DATE: 25/11/1998

Two pre-clearance settlement clusters are depicted in close assocaition on the Chapman /Gibbs map. Although these ruins have been subject to field clearance activities in the recent past, significant parts of this settlement remains intact giving a good example of how these settlements appeared. This site would benefit from an extensive survey.
KM (Arch Service CnES) 13/02/2026

Chapman, James / Gibbs, Alexander, 1807-09, Plan of [the] Island of Lewis (Cartographic materials). SWE41337.