Lybster, Ceann Grianach
Battery (19th Century), Firing Range (19th Century)
Site Name Lybster, Ceann Grianach
Classification Battery (19th Century), Firing Range (19th Century)
Canmore ID 91710
Site Number ND23SW 30
NGR ND 2471 3475
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/91710
- Council Highland
- Parish Latheron
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Caithness
- Former County Caithness
ND23SW 30 2471 3475
A Volunteer two Gun battery and magazine with, immediately to the N, a rifle range and target are depicted on the 1st edition of the OS 6-inch map, (Caithness, 1881, sheet xxxiv)immediately to the S of the town of Lybster. On the modern edition of the OS map(OS 1:10000 map, 1983) there is no evidence for this battery at the equivalent OS grid reference.
Information from RCAHMS (DE) 14 February 1996.