Mull, Cnocan Rainich
Field System (Period Unassigned)(Possible), Township (Period Unassigned)
Site Name Mull, Cnocan Rainich
Classification Field System (Period Unassigned)(Possible), Township (Period Unassigned)
Alternative Name(s) Cnocan-buidhe
Canmore ID 22450
Site Number NM64SE 10
NGR NM 654 418
NGR Description Centred NM 654 418
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/22450
- Council Argyll And Bute
- Parish Torosay
- Former Region Strathclyde
- Former District Argyll And Bute
- Former County Argyll
NM64SE 10 centred 654 418
The deserted settlement of Cnocan-Buidhe (named on OS 6" map, Argyllshire, 1st ed., (1880) consists of about nine roofless buildings and other enclosures.
Visited by OS 13 May 1972
One of the ruins at Cnocan-buidhe is said locally to have been a school, though there appears to be no written evidence for this.
Information from NMRS (see Archive MS/534/1)
A township comprising eight unroofed, three roofed buildings, three enclosures and what may be the fragmentary remains of a field-system (NM 652 421 and NM 657 421), which is conjoined to the field-system of the township to the E (NM64SE 11), is depicted on the 1st edition of the OS 6-inch map (Argyllshire, Island of Mull 1880, sheet lxx). Five unroofed buildings are shown on the current edition of the OS 1:10000 map (1976).
Information from RCAHMS (SAH) 25 June 1998.
