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Dail Na Feusaig

Head Dyke (Post Medieval), Township (Period Unassigned)

Site Name Dail Na Feusaig

Classification Head Dyke (Post Medieval), Township (Period Unassigned)

Alternative Name(s) Dalfaisich

Canmore ID 75097

Site Number NC61SE 5

NGR NC 698 111

NGR Description Centred NC 698 111

Datum OSGB36 - NGR

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Administrative Areas

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

Archaeology Notes

NC61SE 5 centred 698 111

Dalfaisich.

W Roy 1747-55.

Now Dail na Feusaig (OS 6-inch map, 1968). Crofting community abandoned in the 18th/19th century.

Visited by OS (JM) 12 May 1981.

Described as 'pasture land' with no mention of buildings (c.1873).

Name Book (Sutherland).

A township comprising three unroofed buildings, five enclosures and a head-dyke is depicted on the 1st edition of the OS 6-inch map (Sutherland 1879, sheet xcvi). One unroofed building, two enclosures and a head-dyke are shown on the current edition of the OS 1:10,560 map (1968).

Information from RCAHMS (SAH) 16 November 1995.

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