Carnarchy
Head Dyke (Post Medieval), Township (Period Unassigned)
Site Name Carnarchy
Classification Head Dyke (Post Medieval), Township (Period Unassigned)
Canmore ID 6310
Site Number NC75SW 21
NGR NC 719 516
NGR Description centred on NC 719 516
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/6310
- Council Highland
- Parish Farr
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Sutherland
- Former County Sutherland
NC75 SW 21 719 516.
(NC 719 516) Carnachy (OS 6"map, Sutherland, 1st ed., 1873). The remains of a depopulated settlement mentioned as Carnachu in 1726 (Macfarlane 1906-8), which since it was under sheep-farming in 1873 (ONB 1873) is presumably one of those abandoned during the clearance of Strathnaver between 1814 and 1819.
Name Book 1873; W Macfarlane 1906-8; J Prebble 1963.
The deserted township of Carnachy (name verified) comprises sixteen building footing or more, including three 'longhouses' ranging in size from 28.0 by 4.0 to 37.0 by 4.0m, a number of accompanying enclosures remains of a head dyke; and broken traces of field banks. Rig and furrow cultivation is discernible but modern agriculture intrudes upon much of the area.
Visited by OS (J M) 15 December 1978.
A township comprising seven unroofed buildings, one of which is a long building and three enclosures is depicted on the 1st edition of the OS 6-inch map (Sutherland 1878, sheet xxvii). Eighteen unroofed buildings and three enclosures are shown on the current edition of the OS 1:10,560 map (1962).
Information from RCAHMS (SAH) 21 August 1995.
