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Achnacarnin

Township (Period Unassigned)

Site Name Achnacarnin

Classification Township (Period Unassigned)

Canmore ID 69808

Site Number NC03SW 9

NGR NC 046 322

NGR Description Centred NC 046 322

Datum OSGB36 - NGR

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Administrative Areas

  • Council Highland
  • Parish Assynt
  • Former Region Highland
  • Former District Sutherland
  • Former County Sutherland

Archaeology Notes

NC03SW 9 centred 046 322

Centred NC 046 322. Achnacarnin. Main desertion after 1914-18 war.

Visited by OS (GHP), 14 May 1962.

A township comprising twenty-eight roofed and seven unroofed buildings, which has partially been divided into plots, is depicted on the 1st edition of the OS 6-inch map (Sutherland 1878, sheet lviii).

Seventeen roofed and twenty-nine unroofed buildings are shown on the current edition of the OS 1:10,000 map (1971).

Information from RCAHMS (SAH), 4 September 1995.

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