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Baligill, Limekilns
Lime Kiln(S) (Period Unassigned)
Site Name Baligill, Limekilns
Classification Lime Kiln(S) (Period Unassigned)
Alternative Name(s) Strathy, Limekilns; Baligill Burn
Canmore ID 6852
Site Number NC86NE 20
NGR NC 8516 6567
NGR Description NC 8516 6567, NC 8516 6562 and NC 8520 6560
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/6852
- Council Highland
- Parish Farr
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Sutherland
- Former County Sutherland
NC86NE 20 8516 6567, 8516 6562 and 8520 6560
See also NC86NE 19.
A pair of limekilns last used within the memory of an octogenarian resident of Baligill. The southernmost is ruinous, but the other is in an excellent state of preservation. [Describes two more norterly kilns only].
Visited by OS (NKB), 10 August 1977.
(Location cited as NC 852 657). Strathy Limekilns, probably built c. 1820. A more or less complete circular two-draw kiln, and a bank of two single-draw part-circular kilns, one of which is badly ruined. The kilns were peat-fired, as were those at Baligill (NC86NE 19).
J R Hume 1977.
The two northern kilns are cylindrical and are connected by a wall; each measures 15m in diameter and 3m in height, and both are badly preserved. That to the SE is cylindrical with two ground-level openings and an adjacent drystone wall; it measures 4m in diameter and 4m in height.
R J Mercer 1981.
Also at NC 8516 6562 and NC 8520 6560.
Not to be confused with limekilns at site No 19 (8553 6600 and 8556 6601)
