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Doire Na H-earba
Township (Period Unassigned)
Site Name Doire Na H-earba
Classification Township (Period Unassigned)
Canmore ID 108692
Site Number NG72NE 38
NGR NG 785 272
NGR Description Centred on NG 785 272
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/108692
- Council Highland
- Parish Lochalsh
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Skye And Lochalsh
- Former County Ross And Cromarty
NG72NE 38 centred on 785 272
A small township comprising five unroofed buildings is depicted on the 1st edition of the OS 6-inch map (Ross-shire 1880, sheet cxxii), but it is not shown on the current edition of the OS 1:10000 map (1974).
Information from RCAHMS (SAH) 7 May 1996
Field Visit (1996)
NG 780 300 (centre) In the springs of 1995 and 1996 a field survey was carried out on the NTS Balmacara Estate. The estate covers approximately 22.5 sqkm of the Lochalsh peninsula. It lies largely within the points of a triangle formed by Kyle in the SW, Plockton in the N and Balmacara in the SE. The range of topographic variation found within the estate largely reflects that found on the W coast of Scotland generally. The range of sites found during the survey reflects this topographic variation.
During two seasons of survey 109 new sites were recorded. A full report is lodged with the NMRS.
1995
NG 7862 2718 Ruinous bothy 6.5 x 5m
NG 7873 2722 Ruinous bothy/pen 3m square
NG 7860 2725 Ruinous round-cornered house 7 x 4.5m.
NG 7855 2724 Settlement. Four ruined drystone structures: round-cornered house 11.5 x 5m with attached byre 3m square; round-cornered byre 6.5 x 5m; square-cornered house 10 x 5m.
NG 7850 2724 Ruined round-cornered house 9 x 5m; round-cornered byre 6.5 x 4m.
NG 7855 2720 Two compartment dyked enclosure.
Sponsors: National Trust for Scotland, Historic Scotland
M Wildgoose 1996
Condition Survey (1998 - 1998)
NB spelling: Doire na h-Earba
Doire na h-Earba is marked on the 1807 Blackadder estate map as Tornaherab.
The settlement had been abandoned by the time of the 1st edition OS map surveyed in 1873-4, for the buildings are marked as being unroofed.
It consists of 8 ruinous buildings, a pen, major dyke and enclosure, now located on either side of the A87 in dense woodland.
NTS ref: BAL 025.01-11 (Information from condition report for NTS produced by Jill Harden 2000)
NTS commissioned condition survey undertaken by Jill Harden as follow-up to Dualchas survey
