Garbh-airigh
Settlement (Period Unassigned)
Site Name Garbh-airigh
Classification Settlement (Period Unassigned)
Canmore ID 13958
Site Number NH69NW 23
NGR NH 635 987
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/13958
- Council Highland
- Parish Creich (Sutherland)
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Sutherland
- Former County Sutherland
NH69NW 23 635 987.
Centred on NH 635 987 is an area of 18th - 19th century depopulation named Garbh-airigh. There are footings of four main buildings, dimensions varying from 16.0m by 4.0m to 24.0m by 4.0m, and a subsidiary footing 7.0 m by 3.5m. There are a number of accompanying enclosures. The in-field, in which strip cultivation is evident, is bounded by a bank outside of which is a head bank or dyke taking in an appreciable margin of rough ground.
Visited by OS (J M) 2 September 1980.
