Monument record MHG44145 - Torbreck Burn

NC70NW 5.01 7023 0717

An area of arable land, within which are the remains of an old sheepfold and the footings of three rectangular buildings and a kiln. The buildings vary in size from 6.0m by 3.0m to 16.0m by 4.0m.
Visited by OS (W D J) 14 April 1964.

A crofting settlement abandoned in the 18th / 19th century. There are three buildings footings and ruins of a corn-drying kiln; the settlement, which includes the arable ground, has been enclosed by a bank. A later sheepfold, now dilapidated, is on the site.
Kiln surveyed at 1:10,000.
Visited by OS (J M) 19 May 1981.

An earth-and-stone bank encloses a sub-square area measuring about 200m across on the flat-topped crest of a ridge to the NE of the Torbreck Burn. The heather covering the ridge had been burnt-off shortly before the date of visit. A rectangular, two-compartment fold (NC 7023 0717), which is situated towards the centre of the enclosure, is depicted on the 1st edition of the OS 6-inch map (Sutherland 1879, sheet xcvi) within a patch of improved ground, which corresponds roughly with the grass-covered ground on the date of visit. The site is named as A? Bhuaile-fhraoich but no further detail is shown.
Within the S half of the enclosure there are fragments of rig (centred NC 7028 0716) measuring about 4m between furrows. On the S edge of the rig there are two small cairns, measuring up to 3m in diameter and 0.4m in height, with two further small cairns to the N of the farmstead (NC 70NW 5.02).
(ROG95 985)
Visited by RCAHMS (DCC) 14 May 1995