Cairnannock
Cairn (Prehistoric)
Site Name Cairnannock
Classification Cairn (Prehistoric)
Alternative Name(s) Cairnminnock
Canmore ID 63051
Site Number NX39NE 1
NGR NX 37143 96622
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/63051
- Council South Ayrshire
- Parish Straiton (Kyle And Carrick)
- Former Region Strathclyde
- Former District Kyle And Carrick
- Former County Ayrshire
NX39NE 1 3714 9661
(NX 3714 9661) Cairnannock (NR)
OS 6" map (1958)
Cairnannock (Name Book 1849) or Cairnminnock (J Smith 1895) was a circular cairn of loose stones and earth in 1849, but a sheep stall appears to have been constructed on and from the remains which now consist of a circular earth and stone wall, 13m in diameter and 0.2m high, with an entrance 1.5m wide in the SW. The interior is uneven. Visited by OS (JFC) 12 December 1955
The remains of this turf-covered cairn surmounted by a sheep stall are as described by the previous authorities.
Surveyed at 1:10 000.
Visited by OS (JP) 25 May 1976
Field Visit (10 October 1942)
This site was included within the RCAHMS Emergency Survey (1942-3), an unpublished rescue project. Site descriptions, organised by county, vary from short notes to lengthy and full descriptions and are available to view online with contemporary sketches and photographs. The original typescripts, manuscripts, notebooks and photographs can also be consulted in the RCAHMS Search Room.
Information from RCAHMS (GFG) 10 December 2014.
Field Visit (July 1982)
Cairnannock NX 371 966 NX39NE 1
Nothing is visible of the cairn that was situated on a low rise 100m E of the old farmstead of Cairnannock (NX39NE 4); its site is marked by a circular turf-banked sheepfold, which survives in a clearing in Balloch Plantation.
RCAHMS 1983, visited July 1982
(Name Book, Ayrshire, No. 59, p. 52; Smith 1895, 208)
