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Friar's Kirk
Cairn (Prehistoric)
Site Name Friar's Kirk
Classification Cairn (Prehistoric)
Canmore ID 61924
Site Number NX17SW 5
NGR NX 10404 73083
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/61924
- Council Dumfries And Galloway
- Parish Ballantrae (Wigtown)
- Former Region Dumfries And Galloway
- Former District Wigtown
- Former County Ayrshire
NX17SW 5 1040 7308.
(NX 1042 7308) Cairn (NR)
OS 6" map (1957)
The remains of a cairn 13m in diameter and 0.8m high, turf-covered at the edges. In the centre is a hole whose stones have been used to enclose it with a wall.
Visited by OS (JD) 10 November 1955
NX 1040 7308. This cairn is generally as described in the previous field report. It measures 11.5m in diameter and is 0.5m high.
Surveyed at 1:10 000.
Visited by OS (BS) 28 April 1976
Field Visit (July 1981)
Friar's Kirk 1 NX 104 730 NX17SW 5
A cairn measuring 11m in diameter and 0.5m in height is situated in open moorland 120m NW of a sheepfold known as The Friar's Kirk.
RCAHMS 1981, visited July 1981
(Name Book, Ayr, No. 6, p. 122; Smith 1895, 227)
