Boblainy Forest
Corn Drying Kiln (Period Unassigned), Farmstead (Period Unassigned), Kerb Cairn (Prehistoric)
Site Name Boblainy Forest
Classification Corn Drying Kiln (Period Unassigned), Farmstead (Period Unassigned), Kerb Cairn (Prehistoric)
Alternative Name(s) Creagan Dubh; Clunvackie Cottage
Canmore ID 101061
Site Number NH43NE 14
NGR NH 4717 3638
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/101061
- Council Highland
- Parish Kiltarlity And Convinth
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Inverness
- Former County Inverness-shire
NH43NE 14 4717 3638
(Location cited as NH 471 363). Stone walling of dwellings and enclosures in spruce wood, some of which has been damaged by a water main. There are the ruins of a kiln 4 yds (3.7m) in diameter at the E side of the township. At NH 489 377 there is a robbed low oval cairn measuring 5yds by 4 yds (4.6m by 3.7m) with three kerbstones. To the NE, and opposite Clunvackie Cottage (NH 488 378), there are ancoent stone-footings.
D E Coghill et al 1989.
A farmstead, comprising four unroofed buildings, three enclosures and two lengths of head-dyke is depicted on the 1st edition of the OS 6-inch map (Inverness-shire 1875, sheet xviii). Three unroofed buildings, three enclosures and some short lengths of field walls are shown on the current edition of the OS 1:10000 map (1975).
Information from RCAHMS (AKK), 16 May 1996.
Measured Survey (28 April 2011 - 1 May 2011)
NH 4717 3638 A plane table survey and photographic recording was undertaken 28 April–1 May 2011 of the depopulated settlement of Coulachy. The work formed part of a community training project which aims to teach skills in recording heritage on the ground.
The site is recorded as a farmstead on the RCAHMS database and appears as four buildings with associated enclosures and dykes on the 1st Edition OS map. Recent woodland felling has exposed the remains of a more extensive settlement. This consisted of ten buildings representing two phases of construction, followed by adaptation of the buildings for use as sheep fanks and their subsequent abandonment by the mid-19th century. A corn kiln appears to have been built into the side of a substantial and possibly prehistoric cairn. The results of the work formed part of the exhibition Boblainy: Displaying a Hidden Landscape in Kiltarlity Village Hall in June 2011.
Archive: Highland HER
Funder: Boblainy Forest Archaeology Project
Archaeology For Communities in the Highlands (ARCH), 2011
