Allt Na Moine, Shielings
Shieling Hut(S) (Post Medieval)
Site Name Allt Na Moine, Shielings
Classification Shieling Hut(S) (Post Medieval)
Canmore ID 11613
Site Number NG65SE 1
NGR NG 6995 5251
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/11613
- Council Highland
- Parish Applecross
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Ross And Cromarty
- Former County Ross And Cromarty
NG65SE 1 6995 5251.
Situated 1.6km ESE of Lonbain, about 150m OD, is a group of some 18 huts disposed on either side of the Allt na Moine which flows through the centre of the site; there are largish oblong huts and small circular ones but none has traces of mounded foundations. (There were previously thought to have been possible cairns: Name Book 1875)
G Stell and E Beaton 1984; Name Book 1875.
Shielings surveyed at 1:10560 scale.
Visited by OS 27 April 1965.
'Cairns'.
OS 6-inch 1st ed. (Ross-shire, 1880), sheet xciA
Seven structures, labelled as cairns, are depicted on the 1st edition of the OS 6-inch map (Ross-shire 1880, sheet xciA). The location of twelve shieling-huts are plotted on the current edition of the OS 1:10000 map (1991).
Information from RCAHMS (AKK) 23 April 1996.
