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Camas-luinie, General
Township (Period Unassigned)
Site Name Camas-luinie, General
Classification Township (Period Unassigned)
Alternative Name(s) Camas Luinie
Canmore ID 275665
Site Number NG92NW 9
NGR NG 94722 28345
NGR Description Centred on NG 94722 28345
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/275665
- Council Highland
- Parish Kintail
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Skye And Lochalsh
- Former County Ross And Cromarty
Camas-luinie Remote crofting township on the old drovers' route up Glen Elchaig, one of the few in the West Highlands still unaffected by encroaching suburbia. Resettled in the 1870s, when the land was subdivided into crofts and materials were offered free of charge for the construction of new houses, it became accessible by road only in the 1950s, when a bridge was built. The pièce de résistance is Duncan 'Stalker' Matheson's seven-bay, cruck-framed barn, unusually large for the 1880s, re-roofed in tin in the mid-1980s when its heather roof collapsed.
Taken from "Western Seaboard: An Illustrated Architectural Guide", by Mary Miers, 2008. Published by the Rutland Press http://www.rias.org.uk
Field Visit (September 2012)
NG 941 287 (centred on) A desktop and walkover survey were undertaken in September 2012 on an area above Camusluinie Township. Work revealed the following unrecorded sites:
NG 94313 29201 Hut circle
NG 9442 2892 Pens
NG 94441 28556 Structure
NG 9477 2837 Byre (NG92NW 2)
The following sites were noted within the township head dyke:
NG 94478 28453 Rectangular house with later lamb pens to W corner and another possible one to SE corner
NG 94487 28463 Possible rectangular structure
NG 94534 28526 U-shaped wall with later large clearance cairn atop and maybe overlying an enclosure with a 12m long by 0.5m high and wide wall
NG 94535 28558 Clearance cairn
Archive: RCAHMS. Report: Highland HER and RCAHMS
Stuart Farrell, 2012
