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MHG10057 - Township - Cnoc Garbh-Airigh

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NH69NW 25 centred on 624 986.

Area of 18th/19th century depopulation consisting of four building footings, dimensions from 4m by 7m to 5m by 20m, with accompanying enclosures and field walls.
Visited by OS 10 September 1980.

A township comprising four roofed and one unroofed building, two enclosures and a ring-dyke is depicted on the 1st edition of the OS 6-inch map (Sutherland 1879, sheet ciii). Five unroofed buildings, an enclosure, some field walls and a ring-dyke are shown on the current edition of the OS 1:10,560 map (1970).
Information from RCAHMS (SAH) 3 November 1995

A desk-based assessment and walkover survey was undertaken by CFA Archaeology in 2017 of the proposed Garvary Wind Farm development site.

Site 5 : 'Cnoc-gharvary' is first shown and named on Burnett's map (1855). The enclosures and fields, defined by the remains of stone walls, and the remains of buildings are visible on modern aerial photography (Google Earth). Evidence of rig and furrow can be seen in some of the fields and the field system and there is some evidence of rig and furrow outside and to the southeast of the area shown on the 2015 Ordnance Survey map. Possible fields and other features are also visible on the northeast side of the track between 'Cnoc Garbh-Airigh' and 'Puill Fhraoich' (3).The remains appear to be those of a small township (fermtoun) abandoned sometime between 1874 and 1903 (the date of the 2nd edition survey) and are more extensive and complex than currently mapped.Field survey found the remains of the township to be well preserved and surviving as mapped on the modern Ordnance Survey maps. The remains include stone field boundary dykes up to 1.2 m wide and up to 1 m high and building remains surviving as upstanding stone walls up to 1 m wide and up to 1 m high. <1>

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Grid reference	Centred NH 6243 9862 (225m by 393m) (2 map features)
Map sheet	NH69NW
Geographical Area	SUTHERLAND
Civil Parish	CREICH

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