Monument record MHG28305 - Torrangarbh

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User: Admin, Date: Fri 10 Mar 2000
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NC70SW 135 7096 0473

This township comprises four buildings, two corn-drying kilns and a head-dyke. The buildings range from 3.6m to 10.9m in length by 2.4m to 3.6m in breadth within faced-rubble walls, 0.7m to 0.8m thick and 1.1m and 1.4m high. One of the longer buildings (ROG95 805) is divided into two compartments and has a plinth, 1.7m across and 0.6m high, in the NW corner of E compartment, with an opening in the N wall behind it; there is an extension, 4.8m long, to W of the building. One of the kilns (ROG95 802), which is situated outside the head-dyke, measures 1.7m square by 1m in depth, with a barn extending 2.8m to the SW by 1.4m transversely, accessible through an entrance in the same end. The other kiln (ROG95 803) measures about 1m in diameter across the bowl with a depth of 0.9m and an opening for a flue on the S. The head-dyke, which is partly depicted on the current OS 1:10000 map, encloses an an area of about 1ha in an irregularly shaped enclosure.
All four buildings are depicted as roofed on the 1st edition OS 6-inch map (Sutherland 1879, sheets civ and xcvi), and as unroofed on the 2nd edition of the OS 6-inch map (Sutherland 1907, sheets civ and xcvi).
(ROG95 801-6)
Visited by RCAHMS (PJD) 20 June 1995