Arineckaig
Corn Drying Kiln (Period Unassigned)(Possible), Township (Period Unassigned)
Site Name Arineckaig
Classification Corn Drying Kiln (Period Unassigned)(Possible), Township (Period Unassigned)
Alternative Name(s) Strath Carron/loch Dughaill
Canmore ID 78846
Site Number NG94NE 3
NGR NG 985 455
NGR Description centred on NG 985 455
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/78846
- Council Highland
- Parish Lochcarron
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Ross And Cromarty
- Former County Ross And Cromarty
NG94NE 3 centred on 985 455
Some of the walls of these buildings survive to a height of about 1.3m, and may incorporate natural rock formations. To the NW of the township, at about NG 9854 4567, there is what is probably a corn-drying kiln and numerous hollows of indeterminate origin set into a fluvio-glacial hummock.
Information from Mr C Campbell, 14 Greenbank Drive, Edinburgh. 12 May 1992.
A township comprising one unroofed, one partially roofed and twenty-two roofed buildings and two lengths of field wall is depicted on the 1st edition of the OS 6-inch map (Ross-shire 1880, sheet civ). One roofed and twelve unroofed buildings are shown on the current edition of the OS 1:10000 map (1973).
Information from RCAHMS (SAH) 3 May 1996
