Map Reference: Hynish f
Name Type: building
Meaning: The house of the gun powder
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Information:Where the gunpowder for blasting the quarries was stored away from the accommodation.
The stores, barracks for up to 100 men, magazine for gunpowder and walled gardens built 1836-8 by Mr Scott, the foreman. Account of the Skerryvore Lighthouse by Alan Stevenson 1848, 102
It later became a hen house. It contained "the best of fittings" -brass hinges etc. that you would expect from a lighthouse building - WL.
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Languages : Gaelic, EnglishInformants: Lachlan MacFarlane, Hynish,11/1995
Informant 2: Willie Lamont, Mannal, 8/1995
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