Archaeology Notes

Event ID 676317

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NN17NW 7 1294 7862.

(NN 1294 7862) Tigh Chairm Nan Cat (NR) (Site of).

OS 6" map (1903)

Tigh Chairm nan Chait was a hut allegedly built by Ailean nan Creach of Tor Castle for supernatural purposes in the late 15th or early 16th centuries. Some writers give the place of Allan's hut as being near to the centre of Corpach Moss, but the correct site is a clearing called Dail a Chait.

D B MacCulloch 1938

A pasture field with nothing to be seen.

Visited by OS (CFW) 17 July 1961

No change.

Visited by OS (NKB) 6 May 1970