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Record details

ID:	MHG41791
Type of record:	Monument
Name:	Site of Barn, Old Leanach House, Culloden
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Summary

The site of the barn which was burned following the Battle of Culloden 1746. No visible traces survive.

Reports

Old Council listed building record (for up to date description see link to Historic Scotland's website) © Highland Council

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Sites and Monuments Record Card © Highland Council (File size: 75 KB)

Grid Reference:	NH 74491 44984
Map Sheet:	NH74SW
Civil Parish:	CROY AND DALCROSS
Geographical Area:	INVERNESS

Monument Types

BARN (Built (at some time) 18th Century - 1721 AD to 1730 AD)

Protected Status:	Historic Battlefield (Inventory) Culloden: Culloden, 16 April 1746

Scores

Survival: Sub Surface Remains (undated). Notes: ?

Other References/Statuses

Historic Environment Record: MHG41791
NMRS NUMLINK Reference: 14298
NMRS Record Details: NH74SW21 CULLODEN MOOR, OLD LEANACH FARMHOUSE
Old SMR Reference Number: NH74SW0027

Full description

NMRS Notes

NH74SW 21 7450 4499

For Culloden Moor, Battlefield (centred NH 742 450), see NH74NW 17.00.

(NH 7450 4499) Old Leanach (NAT)

OS 6" map, Inverness-shire, 2nd ed., (1906)

'Old Leanach (In Ruins)'. 'This name applies to the ruins of a farmsteading situated in the "Field of the English". The barn that stood here in 1746 to which the wounded Highlanders were carried and over whom it was burned by order of the Duke of Cumberland, has completely disappeared leaving no vestiges behind.'

Name Book 1869. <1>

The old farm house of Leanach a low thatched building was completely restored by the National Trust in 1960. The site of the barn was fixed at c.9.0m to the SW of Leanach. At this spot are some foundations but not thought to be of the old barn (Information from Mr N MacDonald, Warden, National Trust for Scotland, Culloden).

Visited by OS (W D J) 24 April 1962.

Old Leanach farmstead is shown as an L-shaped unroofed building with an attached short length of wall on the 1st edition of the OS 6-inch map (Inverness-shire, Nairnshire 1871-6, sheet xiii).

Information from RCAHMS (AKK), 19 June 1996.

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The site of the barn is depicted on James Fraser's 1867 map to the west of the cottage. It is marked as "Site of Barn burnt over wounded Highlanders by order of the Duke of Cumberland". <2>

Sources and further reading

---	Text/Publication/Volume: Close-Brooks, J. 1986. Exploring Scotland's Heritage: The Highlands. 68, No. 24.
---	Text/Publication/Volume: Culloden Moor. 1962. Culloden Moor and Clava circles. .
---	Text/Publication/Volume: Taylor, I C. 1966. Culloden: a guidebook to the battlefield with the story of the battle, the events leading to it and the aftermath. 2nd ed.. .
---	Text/Publication/Article: Stell, G. 1981. Crucks in Scotland: a provisional list. SHG23456. 82-6. 84.
---	Image/Photograph(s): Digital Image. . .
<1>	Text/Publication/Volume: Name Book (County). Object Name Books of the Ordnance Survey. Book No. 18, 26.
<2>	Text/Report/Fieldwork Report: Gow, A. 03/2009. Old Leanach Cottage, Culloden: Desk Based Assessment and Architectural Record: March 2009. Addyman Archaeology. 17/08/2009. Paper (Original). p 5.