Monument record MHG20655 - Ruigh Fhearchair

Corres from M Macdonald regarding Novar windfarm extension: the site is recorded on Gen Roy's Survey of c1750 as the garbled but recognisable Rivacky. In 1991 while researching the Evanton Oral History Proj, Adrian Clark noted a large building as follows "it measures c20m x 5m & the walls stand 5-7 feet high. The top end is divided & there is a semi circular enclosure to the SW .. A few hundred yards to the N also hidden in plantation are the ruins of 2 further holdings." The lands of Rearchar also appear in the calendar of writs of Munro of Foulis eg in a tack of 1586 as Refarquhar and a precept of 1619 as Rhieferquhar - HAW 6/2003

NH57SW 6 centred on 528 722
A township comprising two unroofed buildings, each of two compartments, an enclosure, a sheepfold and a head-dyke is depicted on the 1st edition of the OS 6-inch map (Ross-shire and Cromartyshire 1880, sheet lii). Two unroofed buildings, two enclosures, one of which has four compartments, and part of the head-dyke are shown on the current edition of the OS 1:10000 map (1992).
Information from RCAHMS (SAH) 23 February 1996