Tulach Luib Moire
Shieling Hut(S) (Post Medieval)
Site Name Tulach Luib Moire
Classification Shieling Hut(S) (Post Medieval)
Canmore ID 8281
Site Number ND14SW 3
NGR ND 105 401
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
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- Council Highland
- Parish Halkirk
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Caithness
- Former County Caithness
ND14SW 3 105 401.
(ND 1043 4011, ND 1051 4007, ND 1059 4015, ND 1060 4003) Mounds (NR) (Remains of)
OS 6" map, Caithness, 2nd ed., (1908)
Shielings (ruins of): About 3/4 mile S by W of Thulachan, on low grassy knolls, are the ruins of several primitive rectangular buildings, the largest measuring some 35 by 12ft. Large blocks of stone have been used in their construction.
RCAHMS 1911, visited 1910.
Centred ND 1050 4010. Situated on both sides of the Allt Ruadh Mor are the footings of seven shieling bothies, varying in size from 10.0 by 3.0m to 6.0 by 3.0m, situated on low mounds, but the structures themselves are no more than 0.2m high.
Visited by OS (J L D) 28 May 1960.
(ND 105 401) Tulach Luib Moire (NAT) (Old Shielings) (NAT)
OS 6" map, (1962)
The footings of seven shieling bothies as described in the previous field report.
Revised at 1:10560.
Visited by OS (J M) 4 March 1982.
Four unroofed shieling-huts are depicted on the 1st edition of the OS 6-inch map (Caithness 1877, sheet xxxii). Five unroofed shieling-huts are shown on the current edition of the OS 1:10,560 map (1967).
Information from RCAHMS (SAH) 23 November 1995
