Monument record MHG34331 - BIALLIDBEG

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User: Admin, Date: Wed 13 Oct 2004
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NN69NE 46 6917 9735

In the fields to the NE of the present house at Biallidbeg there are the remains of a township comprising at least seven buildings and two enclosures. Most of the buildings have been set into the rear of a broad terrace, and are aligned NE and SW along the contour, with entrances in the SE side. They measure between 8.3m and 13.3m in length and between 2.7m and 3.8m in breadth within walls, most of which have been robbed and reduced to stony banks up to 1.1m thick and no more than 0.5m high. Two buildings (KING95 596 and 597) define the SE side of a subrectangular enclosure, and there are fragments of a second enclosure attached to another building (KING95 593).
Four buildings are shown at this location in 1756 on a map of Cluny Estate (surveyor unknown, held by Cluny Estate, photographic copy in NMRS), which identifies them, along with buildings to the SE (see NN69NE 38) as part of the township of 'Ballaid Vaunie' within the farm of 'Ballaidbeg'. A map of the same estate produced in 1770 by William Tennoch, which is to a large extent based on the map of 1756, shows six buildings here, annotated 'Ballaid Crag' (SRO RHP 3489). Both maps show the terrace to the NE and SW of these buildings to be taken up by arable ground, but the only rig recorded on this terrace is contained in two narrow strips to the SW, described under NN69NE 44 and 45. None of the features described here are depicted on the 1st edition of the OS 6-inch map (Inverness-shire 1872, sheet ci).
(KING95 592-8)
Visited by RCAHMS (SDB) 25 October 1995