Over Glenny
Cruck Framed Building (Post Medieval), Sheepfold (Post Medieval)(Possible), Township (Post Medieval)
Site Name Over Glenny
Classification Cruck Framed Building (Post Medieval), Sheepfold (Post Medieval)(Possible), Township (Post Medieval)
Alternative Name(s) Nether Glenny
Canmore ID 24055
Site Number NN50SE 31
NGR NN 5705 0290
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/24055
- Council Stirling
- Parish Port Of Menteith
- Former Region Central
- Former District Stirling
- Former County Perthshire
NN50SE 31.00 5705 0290
NN50SE 31.01 NN 5704 0290 Building: Cruck-Framed
This deserted settlement shows evidence of at least two periods. There is also a cruck-framed byre with three pairs of cruck slots.
G B Bailey 1987.
A township, comprising three roofed buildings, an enclosure of four compartments which may be a sheepfold and two enclosures is depicted on the 1st edition of the OS 6-inch map (Perthshire 1866, sheet cxxiii). Four unroofed buildings are shown on the current edition of the OS 1:10000 map (1978).
Information from RCAHMS (AKK) 30 January 1998.
Field Visit (15 May 1995)
A small township is situated to the W of a tributary of the Glenny Burn consisting of five buildings, one of which has been reduced to its footings.
A long range of cottages (NN 5702 0286) which measures 30.7 from NE-SW by 6.4m and surviving to a gable height of 6.5m. There are six compartments with evidence of rebuilding in one, where the entrance has been blocked. To the rear of the building is a small outhouse measuring 4.7 by 3.5m also surviving to gable height.
Immediately S of this range are the footings of a further range of cottages, comprising of at least two compartments and measuring 20.8m NE-SW by 6.5m over grass-covered walls up to 0.2m in height.
Some 20m to the NE of this group is a cruck-framed building (see NN50SE 31.01).
A further building lies 60m to the SE of the two ranges of cottages. Of two compartments, measuring 12m E-W by 4.8m transversely over walls up to 0.5m in thickness and 1.65m in height. The E compartment has an entrance on the S; the W compartment, an entrance in the N.
The township is depicted as roofed on the 1st edition of the OS 6-inch (Perthshire 1866, sheet 123), and named 'Over Glenny'. The Ordnance Survey Name Book refers to the group of buildings as a 'farm house and offices' (ONB 1866). The latest edition of the OS map (OS 1:10000 map, 1978) depicts the buildings as unroofed.
Visited by RCAHMS (JS & DE) 15 May 1995.
