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Lentranhill
Building(S) (19th Century), Croft(S) (19th Century)
Site Name Lentranhill
Classification Building(S) (19th Century), Croft(S) (19th Century)
Canmore ID 116710
Site Number NH54SE 45
NGR NH 5861 4451
NGR Description NH 586 445 and NH 587 446
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/116710
- Council Highland
- Parish Kirkhill
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Inverness
- Former County Inverness-shire
NH45SE 45 586 445 and 587 446
NH 44/54 OS 586445 and OS 587446 No. 53 S.W. of Lentran Hill.
Ruins of 2 crofts with large rectangular ponds immediately in front at the south, probably used for steeping purposes. There is another similar feature on the same line a short distance to the west.
Coghill et al 1989
Srp Note (12 January 2012)
Three ruined rectangular croft houses aligned from NE to SW are situated on the improved NW facing flanks of an unnamed hill, SE of the minor road. The best preserved (at NH 5875 4458) measures 30.5m from NE to SW by about 5m transversely over mortared rubble walls up to 0.9m thick and 1.3m high at the SW end. A walled yard survives immediately to the W, over a track way, and measures 27m from NE to SW by 20m overall. Another (at NH 5850 4441) is gorse-grown, with only the stone footings and a raised and walled yard immediately to the NW visible. A third (at NH 5861 4451), is also gorse grown and is laid out in a manner similar to the first. All three buildings are constructed on artificial platforms and each has a damp flat area at the immediate SE, terraced into the hillside. These were noted by the previous authority as steeping ponds, but may in fact be flooded yards produced by quarrying for building materials.
Three large and three small roofed buildings are depicted on the 1st edition of the OS 25-inch map (Inverness Mainland 1876, Sheet X1.2). Lentran was described in the contemporary OS Name Book as a name that 'applied to 'a number of small crofter's houses...the property of W H White of Lentran House'’ (No.52, p.23).
Visited by George Geddes February 2010.
