Loinn Mhor
Farmstead (Period Unassigned), Head Dyke (Post Medieval)
Site Name Loinn Mhor
Classification Farmstead (Period Unassigned), Head Dyke (Post Medieval)
Canmore ID 69825
Site Number NC12NW 11
NGR NC 1331 2891
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/69825
- Council Highland
- Parish Assynt
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Sutherland
- Former County Sutherland
NC12NW 11 1331 2891.
Loinn Mhor. Footings of two buildings, 11m by 4m and 8m by 4m, with accompanying enclosure is bracken-clad pasture marked by occasional heaps of cleared stone, and a bounding bank taking in rough ground. Abandoned in the 19th century.
Visited by OS (JM) 15 July 1980.
A farmstead comprising two unroofed buildings and an enclosure, and a length of boundary wall are depicted on the 1st edition of the OS 6-inch map (Sutherland 1878, sheet lix). Two unroofed buildings, an enclosure and a field wall are shown on the current edition of the OS 1:10,560 map (1967).
Information from RCAHMS (SAH) 5 September 1995
