Building record MHG18091 - Crackaig Farmstead
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Location
| Grid reference | Centred NC 9570 1071 (100m by 100m) (Buffered by site type) |
|---|---|
| Map sheet | NC91SE |
| Geographical Area | SUTHERLAND |
| Old County | SUTHERLAND |
| Civil Parish | LOTH |
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NC91SE 7.01 9570 1073
This is a multi-period complex comprising both 'E' and 'L' -planned ranges which includes a barn with a water powered threshing machine, large covered cattle courts, extensive byres, stables, a straw house with separate blacksmiths, sheep folds and worker's houses. The steading was partly in use on the date of survey, with some of the buildings in a state of good repair and some ruinous.
Visited by RCAHMS (GJD), July 1993; see NMRS MS 744/117.
Sources/Archives (2)
- --- SHG2841 Text/Publication/Volume: Sutherland Estates. 1866-. Sutherland Estates building specifications. Crackaig 1908, 1-4 (steading); 1889, 1-23 (cattle courts); 1862 1-8.
- --- SHG32 Text/Publication/Article: Wade Martins, S. 1997. ''A Century of Farms and Farming on the Sutherland Estate, 1790 - 1890'', Review of Scottish Culture, Vol 10, 1996-7, pp 33-54. p 45, 46; fig. 10.
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Record last edited
Dec 11 2009 1:42PM
