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Auchenrach
Head Dyke (Post Medieval), Township (Period Unassigned)(Possible)
Site Name Auchenrach
Classification Head Dyke (Post Medieval), Township (Period Unassigned)(Possible)
Alternative Name(s) Dalvina Lodge
Canmore ID 73033
Site Number NC64SE 59
NGR NC 698 430
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/73033
- Council Highland
- Parish Farr
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Sutherland
- Former County Sutherland
NC64SE 59 698 430.
Auchenrach, shown on B Meredith's Plan of the Heights of Strathnaver, 1811, was one of the outlying enclosures of Rosal (NC64SE 12). There is evidence to show that such enclosures result from land reclamation which was taking place at the time of the Clearances, 1814-20. The enclosure dyke, substantially built of stone and turf, but now ruinous, has contained four acres, with a small long-house, an outhouse and a yard and is estimated to have been permanently occupied by one family. Possibly originally a shieling.
H Fairhurst 1969a.
As described by Fairhurst.
Visited by OS (NKB) 21 December 1978.
Scheduled with NC64SE 40, NC64SE 58, NC64SE 63 NC74SW 4.
Information from Historic Scotland, scheduling document dated 11 February 1993.
What may be a township, comprising four unroofed buildings, an enclosure and a ring-dyke is depicted on the 1st edition of the OS 6-inch map (Sutherland 1878, sheet xlv). Two unroofed buildings, an enclosure and the ring-dyke are shown on the current edition of the OS 1:10,000 map (1992).
Information from RCAHMS (AKK) 9 October 1995.
