Apigill
Corn Drying Kiln (Period Unassigned), Farmstead (Period Unassigned), Rig And Furrow (Medieval) - (Post Medieval)
Site Name Apigill
Classification Corn Drying Kiln (Period Unassigned), Farmstead (Period Unassigned), Rig And Furrow (Medieval) - (Post Medieval)
Alternative Name(s) Apagill
Canmore ID 73997
Site Number NC75NW 89
NGR NC 710 574
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/73997
- Council Highland
- Parish Farr
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Sutherland
- Former County Sutherland
NC75NW 89 710 574
Apigill: the ruins of a croft (Name Book compiled 1873).
Name Book (Sutherland).
The turf-covered footings of two long-houses the larger being 53m by 4m with the walls averaging 0.3m high. Associated enclosures in a similar condition occur nearby along with a corn-drying kiln. There are faint traces of contemporary run-rig.
Visited by OS (JB) 30 November 1978.
A farmstead, comprising one unroofed building and an enclosure, is depicted on the 1st edition of the OS 6-inch map (Sutherland 1878, sheet xviii) and on the current edition of the OS 1:10,560 map (1964).
Information from RCAHMS (FO) 17 August 1995.
