Wester Turnaig
Township (Period Unassigned)
Site Name Wester Turnaig
Classification Township (Period Unassigned)
Alternative Name(s) Loch Thurnaig; Aldmatt
Canmore ID 4746
Site Number NC30SE 2
NGR NC 392 003
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
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- Council Highland
- Parish Creich (Sutherland)
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Sutherland
- Former County Sutherland
NC30SE 2 392 003
NC 398 003 Loch Thurnaig. A depopulated site of approximately six acres, two-thirds of which is strip cultivation. The house sites vary from 10ft to 30ft square, grouped, on raised banks, about two streets which converge into a square. There is a ditch surrounding them, possibly in case of river flooding.
T C Welsh 1968.
Welsh (T C Welsh 1968) seems to have amalgamated the two depopulated sites of Wester Turnaig, at NC 392 003, and Easter Turnaig (NC 401 002 - see NC40SW 11) in his description. At Wester Turnaig are two houses with outbuildings and steadings, and a large area of strip cultivation. The site is not surrounded by a ditch, though it does occur on an old river terrace with drainage ditches in the vicinity.
Visited by OS (AA) 22 August 1974.
NC 393 004 Aldmatt.
W Roy 1747-55,
