Forsinard
Farmstead (Period Unassigned)
Site Name Forsinard
Classification Farmstead (Period Unassigned)
Canmore ID 6789
Site Number NC84SE 7
NGR NC 895 445
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
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- Council Highland
- Parish Farr
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Sutherland
- Former County Sutherland
NC84SE 7 895 445.
A complex, substantial and long-lived farmstead whose most striking feature is a 74m longhouse which has been extended at least twice.
Three other longhouses also occur, in varying stages of dilapidation, as well as what may be a byre.
R J Mercer 1980.
A farmstead comprising three unroofed buildings, one of which is a long building and one of which has two compartments, and a circular structure, is depicted on the 1st edition of the OS 6-inch map (Sutherland 1878, sheet xxxviii). Four unroofed buildings, one of which is a long building and one which has two compartments, are shown on the current edition of the OS 1:10, 560 map (1962).
Information from RCAHMS (SAH) 24 August 1995
