Monument record MHG28276 - East Kinnauld

NC70SW 124 7397 0160, 7391 0168 and 7385 0182

There are three farmsteads, which were probably laid out in the first half of the 19th century, disposed over a distance of about 250m from NW to SE along the SW face of a ridge at East Kinnauld.
The E steading comprises a building (ROG95 NC 7397 0160), a cartshed and a field, but the other two consist of single buildings. The main buildings of each steading are aligned roughly on the same axis, WNW-ESE, and are rectangular, rubble-faced structures in varying states of preservation. The buildings range in size from 6.3m to 8.4m in length by 3m in breadth, where it was possible to measure, within faced-rubble walls 0.65m to 1m thick and standing to 1.5m high in the best-preserved example (ROG95 452, NC 7391 0168). This latter building is a three-bayed cottage with a central door between two windows of which one has a concrete stop for a window-frame, and an outshot on the NW 1.5m wide by 2.1m deep. The cartshed is set into the slope of the ground and measures 2.5m from NE to SW by 1.7m transversely with an opening 1.55m wide in the SW (ROG95 451). The westernmost building has been severely robbed (ROG95 544, NC 7385 0182).
The 1st edition depicts the buildings of the E farmstead as roofed, but the middle farmstead is partly hidden by a map annotation (Sutherlandshire 1879, sheet civ). On the 2nd edition, the building of the middle farmstead is roofed, lying within a field, whilst the buildings of the easternmost farmstead are unroofed (Sutherlandshire 1907, sheet civ).
(ROG95 450-2, 544)
Visited by RCAHMS (PJD) 23 March 1995