Monument record MHG2915 - Stone, Tornagrain Manse
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Location
| Grid reference | Centred NH 7669 4984 (6m by 6m) (Buffered by site type) |
|---|---|
| Map sheet | NH74NE |
| Old County | INVERNESS-SHIRE |
| Civil Parish | PETTY |
| Geographical Area | INVERNESS |
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Full Description
Clach an Tuill (NAT)
OS 25" amp, Inverness-shire, (1870)
A large boulder with a hole the size of tea-cup cut in the top. Evidently an old cup or boundary stone.
Clach-an-tuill is a holed stone, the collected water from which was supposed to cure wens.
Name Book 1870; A Fraser 1878.
No trace of this stone could be found at NH 7707 5014. It is probably the stone now adjacent to the front door of the U.F.C church manse at Tornagrain (NH 7670 4985) and measures 0.7m x 0.6m x 0.4m high having a hole 5" in diam by 3" deep central to the top. The circumstances of its removal could not be ascertained by local enquiry.
Surveyed at 1/2500
Visited by OS (R D) 18 August 1964.
Sources/Archives (2)
- --- SHG2223 Text/Publication/Volume: Fraser, A. 1878. Northern Folklore on Wells and Water, with an account of some interesting wells in the neighbourhood of Inverness and the north. 26.
- --- SHG3388 Text/Publication/Volume: Name Book (County). Object Name Books of the Ordnance Survey. Book No. 55, 57.
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Record last edited
Jan 28 2008 12:00AM
