MHG5048 - Shieling huts - Cnocantoul

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NG34NW 2 304 476.

NG 304 476. On a shelf on the W side of Gleann Eoghainn, at a height of about 300' OD is a group of about 15 ruined shielings. They are of turf, in a very poor condition generally, and show as green mounds up to 5.0m in diameter and 0.5 m high with central depressions, or as small circular turf-banks. They are mainly single-cell types with one or two double-cell examples. (Visible on RAF air photographs CPE/Scot/UK/175: 1177-8)
Visited by OS (C F W) 13 May 1961.

Fifteen ruinous shielings, as described by OS.
Information from R Miket, October 1989.

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Grid reference Centred NG 3039 4746 (264m by 579m) (2 map features)
Map sheet NG34NW
Geographical Area SKYE AND LOCHALSH
Civil Parish DUIRINISH

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