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Aultanrynie
Shieling Hut(S) (Post Medieval)
Site Name Aultanrynie
Classification Shieling Hut(S) (Post Medieval)
Alternative Name(s) Alltanraynie
Canmore ID 71514
Site Number NC33NW 2
NGR NC 346 362
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/71514
- Council Highland
- Parish Eddrachillis
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Sutherland
- Former County Sutherland
NC33NW 2 346 362.
NC 347 361 Aldrany
Roy 1747-55, sheet 35/3.
Aultanrynie.
OS 6"-map, 1963.
The present occupied house of Aultanrynie is dated 1868. The only evidence of earlier settlement is a group of five bothies or shielings, reduced to their footings, at NC 346 362.
Visited by OS (NKB) 6 June 1980.
Two unroofed shieling-huts are depicted on the 1st edition of the OS 6-inch map (Sutherland 1878, sheet li). One unroofed building is shown on the current edition of the OS 1:10,560 map (1963).
Information from RCAHMS (SAH) 1 September 1995
