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Airigh An Leathaid

Corn Drying Kiln (Period Unassigned), Farmstead (Period Unassigned)

Site Name Airigh An Leathaid

Classification Corn Drying Kiln (Period Unassigned), Farmstead (Period Unassigned)

Canmore ID 86986

Site Number NC86SW 21

NGR NC 842 623

Datum OSGB36 - NGR

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

Archaeology Notes

NC86SW 21 842 623

NC 842 623: Airigh an Leathaid.

OS 6"map (1962)

An old shieling.

Name Book 1873

Two main building footings, 10 by 4m and 24 by 4m, attached corn-drying kiln, and a ruinous enclosure wall, narrow rig cultivation is present. Round about are one or two lesser structural footings of a bothy-shieling type.

Visited by OS (JM) 23 June 1977.

This farmstead comprises three unroofed buildings and an attached enclosure as depicted on the 1st edition of the OS 6-inch map (Sutherland 1878, sheet x). The site is similarly depicted on the current edition of the OS 1:10,560 map (1962).

Information from RCAHMS (SAH) 9 August 1995.

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