Leathad A' Chuailein
Enclosure(S) (Period Unassigned), Farmstead(S) (Period Unassigned), Field System (Period Unassigned), Kiln (Period Unassigned)
Site Name Leathad A' Chuailein
Classification Enclosure(S) (Period Unassigned), Farmstead(S) (Period Unassigned), Field System (Period Unassigned), Kiln (Period Unassigned)
Canmore ID 13925
Site Number NH69NE 16
NGR NH 659 961
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
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- Council Highland
- Parish Creich (Sutherland)
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Sutherland
- Former County Sutherland
NH69NE 16 659 961.
Noted during pre-afforestation survey.
D Ross 1983.
At Leathad A' Chuailein is a farmstead of four recent rectangular buildings around yard overlying earlier building foundations contemporary with field dyking and to the NW there is a recent bothy and enclosure. To the SE lies a farmstead of three rectangular building foundations, associated field boundary and field clearance heaps: see also NH69NE 17.
Information from D W Ross, S E Finlay and P Ashmore 1983, 3 (see archive, MS/587/1).
A farmstead, comprising one roofed building and two unroofed buildings, and a field-system are depicted on the 1st edition of the OS 6-inch map (Sutherland 1879-81, cviii). Three unroofed buildings and the field-system are shown on the current edition of the OS 1:10,000 map (1990).
Information from RCAHMS (AKK) 22 November 1995.
