Eilean Choraidh, Limekiln
Building(S) (Period Unassigned), Lime Kiln (Period Unassigned)
Site Name Eilean Choraidh, Limekiln
Classification Building(S) (Period Unassigned), Lime Kiln (Period Unassigned)
Canmore ID 4926
Site Number NC45NW 16
NGR NC 4242 5856
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/4926
- Council Highland
- Parish Durness
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Sutherland
- Former County Sutherland
NC45NW 16 4242 5856.
A minor industrial complex comprising in close proximity: (i) A well preserved single limekiln, 7.6m by 3.2m overall. (ii) a building surviving almost to gable height, measuring 18.1m by 4.9m: probably a store house and/or living quarters (iii) a store house 7.3m by 3.2m internally with rounded ends inside and rectangular on the outside. The interior wall face has an outward batter, and the walls are encrusted with lime. The entrance is in the NE end.
Visited by OS, 8 November 1978
Three unroofed buildings are depicted on the 1st edition of the OS six-inch map (Sutherland 1878, sheet xv). The kiln and another unroofed building are shown on the current edition OS 1:10560 map (1961).
Information from RCAHMS (FO) 14 August 1995.
