Monument record MHG21313 - Doir' A' Bhaird

NG78SE 1.01 centred on 773 803

Later occupation of area is indicated by remains of rectangular stone walled buildings, an enclosure, small fields or paddocks, large stock enclosures and remains of an enclosing dyke of earth and stone extending from the Allt Mor at NG 7732 8056 to the River Sand at NG 7688 8009. There are four buildings (area NG 7736 8035) varying in size from 6.0m x 3.5m to 9.0m x 4.0m with an average wall height of 0.6m. The enclosure (at NG 7731 8036) measures 12.0m x 5.0m x 0.8m and has a rectangular compartment 6.0m x 3.0m within its NE angle. The fields are enclosed by turf covered stone walls and the stock enclosures by substantial boulder walls. Two of large stock enclosures and one of small fields have a small compartment (3m x 2m average size) built against inside of enclosing wall.
Two types of stone clearance were noted within the area. Firstly, the usual gathering of the stones into small heaps, now heather-covered, and secondly, on ground thickly covered by stones and rock fragments, small cultivation plots have been created here and there by simply throwing the stones aside.
Visited by OS (WDJ) 11 October 1964.

Additional features discovered in 1990 include:
at NG 7742 8039 and NG 7744 8026 Sub-circular stone walled houses.
at NG 7718 8026 house platform.
Late medieval, post clearance remains include: enclosure banks, enclosed fields, sheep shelters, lambing pens, rectangular houses. New stretches of field banks were located and adjustments made to the alignment and amount of enclosure as published on the 1:10560 OS map.
Sponsor: Glenfiddich Living Scotland Award, per Gairloch Heritage Trust. L J Masters 1990.

A township comprising two unroofed buildings, a field-system and a short length of head-dyke is depicted on the 1st edition of the OS 6-inch map (Ross-shire 1881, sheet xliv). Nine unroofed buildings, two unroofed structures, two field-systems, three enclosures and a head-dyke are shown on the current edition of the OS 1:10560 map (1968) as well as some hut-circles which lie within the township (see NG78SE 1.03).
Information from RCAHMS (AKK) 19 April 1996.