Monument record MHG9643 - Allt an Tigh-Choinneimh

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Location

Grid reference Centred NC 8886 5814 (80m by 80m) (Buffered by site type)
Map sheet NC85NE
Geographical Area SUTHERLAND
Old County SUTHERLAND
Civil Parish FARR

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Full Description

NC85NE 9 8886 5814.

(NC 8886 5814) Undescribed feature
OS 6"map, (1963)

On the south bank of Allt an Tigh-choinneimh (Stream of the Meeting-house) are the ruins of a meeting-house. The building is T-shaped and survives to a height of one building course, part obscured by tumble.
Visited by OS (J M) 14 June 1977.

A T-shaped unroofed building of two compartments is depicted on the 1st edition of the OS 6-inch map (Sutherland 1878, sheet xix) and on the current edition of the OS 1:10,560 map (1963).
Information from RCAHMS (SAH) 17 August 1995

The agricultural track has recently been re-cut is now routed through the centre of the meeting house and one of the nearby hut circles. Both features have been heavily impacted <1>.


<1> Highland Council, 2010, Email between John Malcolm (HS) and Andrew Puls (HCAU) (Text/Correspondence). SHG24677.

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  • <1> Text/Correspondence: Highland Council. 2010. Email between John Malcolm (HS) and Andrew Puls (HCAU). Digital.

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Record last edited

Mar 22 2010 11:05AM

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