Cragganester

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On a terrace in enclosed pasture about 400m NE of the ruined farmstead described under NN63NE 36 there are the remains of a stone building and two huts. The building (BL00 1714) measures 6.4m from N to S by 1.7m transversely within rubble walls up to 1m in height. It has been set into the slope at the N end and levelled up at the S end, and there is a later pen in the SW corner. The N end of this building overlies the E end of one of the huts (BL00 1715). This hut has measured at least 3.6m in length and 2.5m in breadth within walls reduced to spread turf and stone banks 0.4m in height, while the second hut (BL00 1716), situated about 8m to the N, measures 3.5m from N to S by 2.4m transversely within spread turf and stone walls 0.3m in height; the latter hut has been divided into two compartments.

John Farquharson's 1769 Survey of the North Side of Loch Tay (National Archives of Scotland, RHP 973/1, Plan 10) depicts a single building at this location, which was at that time close to the upper limit of the outfields of Balnahanaid. Farquharson's building is aligned E and W, and it may be a representation of the first hut described above. None of the three structures described are depicted on the 1st edition of the OS 6-inch map (Perthshire 1867, sheet lxix). The stone building and the hut that it overlies were surveyed and described in 1989 by McKeague and Sangster.

(BL00 1714-6, 2694).

Visited by RCAHMS (AGCH, MFTR) 19 October 2000.

P McKeague and A Sangster 1989 (RCAHMS MS 625/5, No. 74)