Ach' Mhaire Mhoir
Head Dyke (Post Medieval), Township (Period Unassigned)
Site Name Ach' Mhaire Mhoir
Classification Head Dyke (Post Medieval), Township (Period Unassigned)
Alternative Name(s) Ach Mhairc Mhoir, Sean-bhaile
Canmore ID 25886
Site Number NN87SE 1
NGR NN 8870 7120
NGR Description centred on NN 8870 7120
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/25886
- Council Perth And Kinross
- Parish Blair Atholl
- Former Region Tayside
- Former District Perth And Kinross
- Former County Perthshire
NN87SE 1 centred on 8870 7120
At NN 8866 7125 is the depopulated settlement of Ach' Mhaire Mhoir, comprising twenty-seven buildings, four corn-drying kilns and several enclosures within an area of lazy-bed cultivation and clearance heaps. The remains vary from grass covered footings 0.5m high to drystone walls 1.5m high suggesting two phases of depopulation, the first beginning about 1850. The buildings vary in size from 5.0m x 2.0m to 22.0m x 3.0m.
Visited by OS (RD) 4 October 1967
This township, depicted on the 1st edition of the OS 6-inch map (Perthshire 1867, sheet xxi), is divided in two by Allt Diridh. To the NE the group named Ach Mhairc Mhoir comprises eight unroofed buildings, several of which are annotated as Ruins and two are long buildings, two enclosures, and a head-dyke. To the SW the group named Sean-bhaile comprises five unroofed buildings, one of which is T-shaped, two enclosures and what may be two phases of head-dyke.
The township is also shown on the current edition of the OS 1:10000 map (1974). The group to the NE comprisies thirteen unroofed buildings, one unroofed circular structure, four enclosures and the head-dyke. The group to the SW comprises nine unrofed buildings and a head-dyke.
Information from RCAHMS (SAH) 26 September 1997
