Leys, Cornescorn
Farmstead (Post Medieval)
Site Name Leys, Cornescorn
Classification Farmstead (Post Medieval)
Canmore ID 35206
Site Number NO57SE 54
NGR NO 56634 74397
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/35206
- Council Angus
- Parish Edzell
- Former Region Tayside
- Former District Angus
- Former County Angus
NO57SE 54 566 743
The farmstead, comprising one unroofed building is depicted on the 1st edition of the OS 6-inch map (Fofarshire 1865, sheet xiii).
Two unroofed buildings are shown on the current edition of the OS 1:10000 map (1976).
Information from RCAHMS (AKK), 30 June 1999.
Note (1984)
Leys, Cornescorn 4 NO 566 743 NO57SE 54
This farmstead comprises the remains of a single-compartment rectangular building (5.2m by 2. 5m internally) situated on the NW side of an enclosure and overlying an earlier building (19.5m in internal length); immediately to the NE there are the remains of a four compartment rectangular building (18.4m by up to 3.2m internally). The farmstead was abandoned before 1865.
RCAHMS 1984.
(OS 6-inch map, Forfarshire, 1st ed. 1865, sheet xiii).
