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MHG19184 - Haimer

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Photographs of old barn & walls etc taken by owner prior to demolition for rebuild on site, planning app 03/391/REMCA. These show that barn is a rebuild of a smaller older stone building (possibly cottage) - HAW 1/2004

ND16NW 85 1422 6714
There is a stone taken out of the ruins (of the Castle of Haimer ND16NW 8), and now built into the farmhouse, on which is the date 1726.
Name Book 1872. (Book No. 11, 169)

The stone dated 1726 was not located in the now semi-ruinous farmhouse.
Visited by OS (J M) 1 October 1981

A farmstead comprising three roofed buildings, one unroofed building, one unroofed structure and three enclosures, is depicted on the 1st edition of the OS 6-inch map (Caithness 1876, sheet v). One roofed building and four enclosures are shown on the current edition of the OS 1:10,000 map (1985).
Information from RCAHMS (AKK) 20 December 1995

Castle, of Haimer. No trace of the castle, the site of which now lies within the kailyard of a longhouse. The longhouse has been adapted to
serve as a modern barn. Orientation NW-SE. Visited 1986.
R J Mercer, NMRS MS/828/19, 1995

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Grid reference	Centred ND 1419 6719 (128m by 185m) (2 map features)
Map sheet	ND16NW
Civil Parish	THURSO
Geographical Area	CAITHNESS

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