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Jura, Cnocbreac
Corn Drying Kiln(S) (Period Unassigned), Head Dyke (Post Medieval), Township (Period Unassigned)
Site Name Jura, Cnocbreac
Classification Corn Drying Kiln(S) (Period Unassigned), Head Dyke (Post Medieval), Township (Period Unassigned)
Canmore ID 98308
Site Number NR47SW 11
NGR NR 4488 7304
NGR Description Centred NR 448 730
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
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- Council Argyll And Bute
- Parish Jura
- Former Region Strathclyde
- Former District Argyll And Bute
- Former County Argyll
NR47SW 11 centred 448 730
Cnocbreac: This name applies to the remains of an old hamlet.
Name Book (Argyll), 1878
Cnocbreac comprises two long narrow dwelling houses with associated yards and outbuildings. Some sections of these drystone buildings still stand to gable height. Two corn-drying kilns stand at NR 4482 and NR 4494 7298 respectively. They are in a fair state of preservation and measure 5.0m in diameter and up to 0.7m in height.
Visited by OS (JB), 12 May 1978
This township comprising six unroofed buildings, three of which are long buildings, two enclosures and a head-dyke is depicted on the OS 1st edition 6-inch map (Argyllshire 1881, sheet clxxxvii).
Four unroofed buildings, one roofed building, three conjoined enclosures, one of which has four compartments, a kiln and a head-dyke are shown on the current edition of the OS 1:10000 map (1981).
Information from RCAHMS (SAH), 23 October 1998.
