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MHG10328 - Township - Claisnafaire

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Centred on NH 625 980 is an area of 18th / 19th century depopulation named Claisnafaire (OS 6" map, 1970), consisting of eleven building footings, accompanied by a network of field walls and banks and bounded by a head-dyke or bank. The buildings range in size from 6m by 4m to 27m by 4m.
Visited by OS (J M) 4 September 1980.

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

Site 6: 'Claish na faire' is first shown and named on Burnett's map (1855). It is shown as an abandoned (unroofed) settlement on the 1907 map. 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 may extend further to the southeast than is shown on the 2015 Ordnance Survey map. 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 6251 9808 (376m by 328m) (2 map features)
Map sheet	NH69NW
Geographical Area	SUTHERLAND
Civil Parish	CREICH

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