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Aultnachie
Farmstead (Period Unassigned)
Site Name Aultnachie
Classification Farmstead (Period Unassigned)
Canmore ID 4611
Site Number NC20NW 1
NGR NC 2374 0790
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/4611
- Council Highland
- Parish Assynt
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Sutherland
- Former County Sutherland
NC20NW 1 2374 0790.
(Centred NC 2380 0777) Group of five buildings shown in 1774-5 (J Home 1774-5) reduced to two roofed buildings in 1878 named 'Aultnachie' (NAT) (OS 6"map, 1878) which had lost their roofs by 1906 (OS 6"map, 1906)
J Home 1774-5; OS 6"map, Sutherland, 1st ed., (1878) and 2nd ed., (1906)
The two buildings (one small and probably a farm out-building) shown on the current OS 6" are reduced to dry-stone foundations, maximum height about 1.0m. To the S are the grassed-over foundations of two further buildings and some enclosure walling.
Visited by OS (F R H) 6 June 1962.
Aultnachie: a farmstead deserted in the 19th century, as described. Visited by OS (N K B) 12 August 1980.
