Suidhe is in Scottish Islands, in the United Kingdom — coordinates 56.3168°, -6.2533°.

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Suidhe

Suidhe in Scotland Islands, United Kingdom.

Bunessan, the pier - geograph.org.uk - 921254 — Chris Downer — CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons licence

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Suidhe is a place of interest in Scotland Islands, United Kingdom — drawn from open-data sources for visitor reference. See the linked Wikipedia article for the full description.

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Suidhe (Scottish Gaelic: Suidhe) is a ruined township located on the southwestern peninsula of the Isle of Mull, Scotland. It lies about three-quarters mile (1.2 km) to the west of the village of Bunessan in the civil parish of Kilfinichen and Kilvickeon. It was awarded the status of Scheduled monument in 2004 on the basis of its potential value as a source of information about post-medieval, and possibly medieval, settlement and economy in the Western Isles of Scotland.

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(Ros-y)]] The first documented reference to the settlement is found in Bleau's Atlas of Scotland, 1654, which depicts the site of 'Suy'. In the Ordnance Survey First Edition map one unroofed and five roofed buildings are shown, along with a head dyke and an enclosure. The 1779 census of inhabitants of the Argyll estates shows a population of 11, excluding female children. It is likely that one of the John McCormicks (anglicised form of McCarmaig) recorded in the census was the source of information for a 1791 work entitled A Description of the curious monuments and antiquities in the island of Icolmkill, or the island of St. Colman-Kill. Also an account of the island of Staffa, [...] By a…

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