Monument record MHG28446 - Meall Achadh na Luachrach

NC61SE 15 6848 1018

This farmstead comprises two buildings and some associated enclosures in the corner of an improved field, together with a corn-drying kiln about 160m to the E. Around these features much of the hillside is enclosed by a number of banks, apparently of more than one phase.
The larger building (ROG95 914) is a byre-house measuring 19.9m from E to W by 3.2m transversely within turf-and-stone wall footings 0.7m thick and up to 0.3m high. It has two compartments, that to the E (which may have been rebuilt at some stage) having a drain which runs out at the SW corner. There is an outshot attached to the W end and a stance to the E. About 10m to the S of this there is another building (ROG95 915), 7.3m from NNE to SSW by 3.1m transversely within robbed walls reduced to stony banks. On the NNE it has been set into the slope, leaving a scarp 0.9m high. It appears to have had two compartments, and as the NNE end is rounded it may be a severely robbed kiln barn. Adjacent to these structures there are at least two small rectangular enclosures or pens. The kiln 160m to the E (NC 6865 1011, ROG95 913) has a stone-faced semi-circular bowl 1.5m in diameter and 0.5m deep, set into the hillside. There is a barn on the S side, 4m in length and 2.1m in breadth within a wall now reduced and spread.
The farmstead stands in the NE corner of an improved field, which in turn stands within a much larger enclosure of rough ground, subdivided by banks and drystone walls, some of which are depicted on the first edition of the OS 6-inch map (Sutherland 1879, sheet xcvi). Neither the farmstead nor the kiln is depicted, however, nor is a substantial length of bank on the hillside to the NE of the farmstead, which may have been a head-dyke, possibly contemporary with the farmstead. It runs ESE as far as the buildings described under NC61SE 16 before turning S at NC 6891 1008 and running downhill to meet and then follow the burn to Preas na Sgiathanach.
(ROG95 913-5)
Visited by RCAHMS (SDB) 5 July 1995