Garenin

Garenin (Scottish Gaelic: Na Gearrannan) is a crofting township on the west coast of the Isle of Lewis in the Outer Hebrides of Scotland. Garenin is in the Carloway municipality and has a population of about 80 people. Garenin is also within the parish of Uig.[1] Today the village is most famous for the "blackhouse village", which consists of nine restored traditional thatched cottages. The village is found at the end of the Garenin road beside the village bay. These houses were lived in till 1974 and were the last group of blackhouses to be inhabited in the Western Isles.

Garenin
  • Scottish Gaelic: Na Gearrannan

Garenin Blackhouse Village
Garenin
Location within the Outer Hebrides
LanguageScottish Gaelic
English
OS grid referenceNB192441
Civil parish
Council area
  • Na h-Eileanan Siar
Lieutenancy area
CountryScotland
Sovereign stateUnited Kingdom
Post townISLE OF LEWIS
Postcode districtHS2
Dialling code01851
PoliceScotland
FireScottish
AmbulanceScottish
UK Parliament
Scottish Parliament

In 1989, Urras nan Geàrrannan (The Garenin Trust) was established to restore the houses. Over a decade later the project was complete and the restored blackhouse village was opened by Princess Anne.

The blackhouse village is managed by Gearrannan Village Ltd. There was a Youth Hostel (managed by The Gatliff Trust) but this closed in May 2011. There are four self-catering cottages, a museum (a blackhouse set in 1955) and a resource centre; a café and a small gift shop are open in summer.

gollark: Just use all the memory as a stack, silly.
gollark: ↑ GAZE upon my excellent assembly language.
gollark: ```mipsasm!PAD E0LOOP:re 8 RI # read target location from arbitrary side into bufferadd RJ RI !1mez RJ I !0 # if target location is 255, jump to 0 (normal thing start)re 8 RJ # read data into other bufferidm RI RJ # transfer data into specified locationmov I !LOOP # unconditional jump back to startRI: ! 0RJ: ! 0```
gollark: Nodes which are newly powered on accept a simple* protocol to write their memory and boot them into newly loaded code.
gollark: I made an infinite replicator thing also. It's very slow.

References
  1. "Details of Garenin". Scottish Places. Retrieved 23 December 2014.
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.