blackhouse
Sign in to savethumb|250px|Reconstructed blackhouse, Highland Folk Museum A blackhouse ( ; ) is a traditional type of house which used to be common in Ireland, the Hebrides, and the Scottish Highlands.
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- Origin of the name
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- Lewis blackhouse
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thumb|250px|Reconstructed blackhouse, Highland Folk Museum A blackhouse ( ; ) is a traditional type of house which used to be common in Ireland, the Hebrides, and the Scottish Highlands.
== Origin of the name == thumb|Restored blackhouse in a museum on Trotternish, Skye The origin of the name blackhouse is of some debate. On the Isle of Lewis, in particular, it seems to have been used to distinguish the older blackhouses from some of the newer white-houses ( , ; ), with their harled (rendered) stone walls. There may also be some confusion arising from the phonetic similarity between the dubh, meaning black, and tughadh, meaning thatch.