Monument record MHG51312 - Shieling hut set into head dyke above Lochcarron (A)

Summary

One of six roofless buildings, formerly used as shieling huts, set into the head-dyke above Lochcarron.

Location

Grid reference Centred NG 89805 40294 (6m by 6m) (Approximate)
Map sheet NG84SE
Geographical Area ROSS AND CROMARTY
Civil Parish LOCHCARRON

Map

Type and Period (1)

Full Description

Six roofless buildings are set into the head-dyke wall, roughly equally spaced, with one in the middle of each crofting strip. Local knowledge has these buildings as shielings used while watching over the livestock, which at night were coralled into this end of the crofts, trapped between the head dyke and the river gorge forming two sides of a retaining triangle. The shieling huts were all built around 1800, the same time as Lochcarron itself was established. This information was submitted together with photographs by Paul Swan, a local researcher, in September 2008.

Building A measures 5.6m by 3.4m with a 0.8m wide doorway in the south side. <1><2>

This shieling hut is depicted on the 1st edition Ordnance Survey map of c.1881. <3>

Sources/Archives (3)

  • <1> Text/Correspondence: Swan, P. 2008-9. Correspondence from Paul Swan regarding several sites in the Lochcarron area. Yes. Digital.
  • <2> Text/Manuscript: Swan, P. 2008. Shielings - Lochcarron Crofts. Yes. Digital.
  • <3> Image/Map: Ordnance Survey. 1881. Ordnance Survey 1st edition 6 inch map: Ross-shire. Digital.

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Protected Status/Designation

  • None recorded

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Record last edited

Oct 13 2008 11:10AM

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