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MHG10393 - Achupresh

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NC64SE 58 699 434.

Achupresh, shown on B Meredith's Plan of the Heights of Strathnaver, 1811, was one of the outlying enclosures of Rosal (NC64SE 12). There is evidence to show that such enclosures result from land reclamation which was taking place at the time of the Clearances, 1814-20. The ruinous enclosure dyke, substantially built of stone and turf, has contained six acres, with one full size long-house and possibly a second, together with a barn, a corn-drying kiln, a yard and at least one other outhouse. It is estimated to have been permanently occupied by two families. The enclosure is complex, as though it had been increased by successive intakes from the moor on two or three occasions.
H Fairhurst 1969a.

As described by Fairhurst.
Visited by OS (NKB) 21 December 1978.

This township comprises five unroofed buildings, an enclosure and a ring-dyke as depicted on the 1st edition of the OS 6-inch map (Sutherland, sheet xlv). Five unroofed buildings and the ring-dyke are shown on the current editions of the OS 1:10,000 map (1992) and (1986).
Information from RCAHMS (AKK) 9 October 1995.

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Grid reference	Centred NC 6995 4333 (281m by 254m) (2 map features)
Map sheet	NC64SE
Geographical Area	SUTHERLAND
Civil Parish	FARR

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