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Carn Pheigith
Cairn (Period Unassigned)
Site Name Carn Pheigith
Classification Cairn (Period Unassigned)
Canmore ID 25211
Site Number NN79SE 1
NGR NN 7548 9330
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/25211
- Council Highland
- Parish Kingussie And Insh
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Badenoch And Strathspey
- Former County Inverness-shire
NN79SE 1 7548 9330.
(NN 7548 9329) Carn Pheigith (NR)
OS 6"map, Inverness, 2nd ed., (1903)
A cairn, or heap of boulders, a few feet high and about 12ft. in diameter, supposed to have been erected in memory of a person called Margaret or Peggy.
Name Book 1870.
A heap of bare rubble stones, 3.6m in diameter and 1.0m high, being almost certainly a small memorial cairn of no great antiquity. Tradition not verified.
Visited by OS (N K B) 31 October 1967.
