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Garenin

Field	Value
country	Scotland
official_name	Garenin
gaelic_name	Na Gearrannan
label_position	left
static_image_name	Garenin.jpg
static_image_caption	Garenin Blackhouse Village
language	Scottish Gaelic
language1	English
os_grid_reference	NB192441
coordinates
civil_parish	Uig
unitary_scotland	Na h-Eileanan Siar
lieutenancy_scotland	Western Isles
constituency_scottish_parliament	Na h-Eileanan an Iar
constituency_westminster	Na h-Eileanan an Iar
post_town	ISLE OF LEWIS
postcode_area	HS
postcode_district	HS2
dial_code	01851

Garenin () 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. It is also within the parish of Uig. 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 until 1974 and were the last group of blackhouses to be inhabited in the Western Isles. Piped water was not available in the village until the 1960s.

In 1989, Urras nan Geàrrannan (The Garenin Trust) was established by the Western Isles Council to restore the houses. Over a decade later, on 5 June 2001, the project was complete and the restored village was opened by Princess Anne.

The village is managed by Gearrannan Village Ltd. There was a youth hostel (opened by Magnus Magnusson on 3 July 1991; managed by The Gatliff Trust), but this closed in May 2011. There are four self-catering cottages, a museum (a blackhouse set in 1955, three years after electricity arrived on the island) and a resource centre; a café and a small gift shop are open in summer.

The film The Road Dance was filmed there in 2020.

Gallery

File:The Gearrannan Blackhouses 6.JPG File:The Gearrannan Blackhouses 7.JPG File:The Gearrannan Blackhouses 12.JPG

References

"Details of Garenin". Scottish Places.
[https://www.scottish-places.info/features/featurefirst10411.html Blackhouse Village (Gearrannan Blackhouse Village)] – ''[[The Gazetteer for Scotland]]'', [[Francis Hindes Groome]]

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