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MHG10577 - Breacough

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NC73SE 13 centred on NC 776 317.

(NC 776 317) Breacough (NAT) About fourteen roofless buildings and a number of enclosures shown.
The deserted township of Breac-achadh, superseded by a shepherd's house now named Breacough, comprises about a dozen building foundations, varying in size from 3.0m by 2.0m to 29.0m by 4.0m. There is one kiln and lazy-bed cultivation occurs at NC 778 320.
Visited by OS (E G C) 18 May 1961.

No documented evidence obtained but the township was probably evacuted about the same time as Easter and Wester Badanloch in 1819 (See NC73SE 14 and 15).
Visited by OS (J M) 18 February 1977

A township comprising three unroofed buildings, three sheepfolds, six enclosures, a field and a head-dyke is depicted on the 1st edition of the OS 6-inch map (Sutherland 1878, sheet lv). Three roofed and nineteen unroofed buildings, a sheepfold, six enclosures, a head-dyke and some field walls are shown on the current edition of the OS 1:10,000 map (1992).
Information from RCAHMS (SAH) 10 October 1995

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Grid reference	Centred NC 7771 3196 (664m by 1055m) (2 map features)
Map sheet	NC73SE
Geographical Area	SUTHERLAND
Civil Parish	KILDONAN

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