Suidhe

(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…

The remains of the settlement were given Scheduled Monument designation by Historic Scotland on 20 January 2004. The decision was made on the grounds that it was of national importance as a source of information about post-medieval, and possibly medieval, settlement and economy. The scheduling decision also note that the site's importance is increased by the cartographic and archeological evidence that it was occupied and adapted over a period of at least several hundred years.