Leirinmore, Northern Type 7000 Station
Radar Station (20th Century)
Site Name Leirinmore, Northern Type 7000 Station
Classification Radar Station (20th Century)
Alternative Name(s) Sango Gee Station; Smoo Cave Hotel
Canmore ID 141485
Site Number NC46NW 23
NGR NC 4215 6716
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/141485
- Council Highland
- Parish Durness
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Sutherland
- Former County Sutherland
NC46NW 23 4215 6716
see also NC46NW 22.00
The transmitter block for a Chain Home radar station is situated approximately 70m N of the Smoo Cave Hotel within an area annotated Leirinmore on the current chart copy edition of the OS 1:10560 map (1967). The radar station, which lies to the E of Sango, Smoo radar station (NC46NW 22.00), is visible on vertical air photographs (CPE/Scot/UK/185: 3161-62, flown 1946). Two masts, the transmitter block and the bases of at least two huts are visible on the photographs.
Information from RCAHMS (DE), February 1999.
This is possibly a Gee rather than a Chain Home Station, for radio direction of bombers.
Information from C Latham and A Stobbs, 1997
