Monument record MHG12178 - Alltnacaorach

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Grid reference Centred NC 5030 1880 (100m by 100m) (Buffered by site type)
Map sheet NC51NW
Geographical Area SUTHERLAND
Old County SUTHERLAND
Civil Parish LAIRG

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NC51NW 24 503 188

About 140m N of the farm at Alltnacaorach, on the N bank of the eponymous burn, there are a series of low turf-covered stone footings: A; Consists of two long compartments measuring 14.7m SE-NW by 5.9m. It is aligned to the E with an upstanding open-roofed square stone building which has been much altered in recent times. This building opens to the S.
B; To the N of A is a small U-shaped building opening to the SE. It measures about 4.3m NW-SE by 4.1m. About 50m to the E of these buildings, immediately adjacent to the burn, there are one or two conjoined sub-rectangular enclosures constructed of stone and turf walling.
Visited by RCAHMS (SMF) 11 October 1989.

A farmstead comprising two roofed buildings and one unroofed building, and an enclosure and two fields are depicted on the 1st edition of the OS 6-inch map (Sutherland 1878, sheet lxxiv). One partially roofed and one unroofed building and some field walls are shown on the current edition of the OS 1:10,560 map (1963).
Information from RCAHMS (SAH) 3 October 1995

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Record last edited

Jan 28 2008 12:00AM

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