Bailenacuile
Cairn (Period Unassigned)
Site Name Bailenacuile
Classification Cairn (Period Unassigned)
Canmore ID 13991
Site Number NH69SE 5
NGR NH 6724 9040
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
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- Council Highland
- Parish Creich (Sutherland)
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Sutherland
- Former County Sutherland
NH69SE 5 6724 9040.
(NH 6724 9040) Cairn (NR)
OS 1;10,000 map, (1971)
The remains of a large, circular cairn, dilapidated and grass-grown, about 60ft in diameter. Its sepulchral nature is not certain.
RCAHMS 1911, visited 1909.
The cairn is as described, 1.9m in maximum height with a slightly hollowed top.
Surveyed at 1:2500.
Visited by OS (E G C) 7 June 1963
A cairn, as described, now so overgrown with bracken that no details can be observed.
Visited by OS (N K B) 19 September 1980.
Field Visit (23 July 1909)
79. Cairn, Allt nan Eun.
About ½ m. NW. of Spinningdale Post Office, on the E. of the Allt nan Eun, and some 30 yards back from the road, inside a wood, are the remains of a large circular cairn, much dilapidated and overgrown with grass. Its diameter has been about 60'. There is no indication of its character.
OS Map, Sutherland, sheet cxii. (unnoted).
RCAHMS 1911, visited (AOC) 23rd July 1909.
