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MHG30505 - Settlement - Achadh na h-Eirghe

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Remains of a settlement at Achadh na h-Eirghe.

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Remains of a settlement at Achadh na h-Eirghe.

Enclosures and possible dwellings.
Information supplied by Mr & Mrs Dubberley, 05/02/02.
J Aitken : 06/02/02.

Vertical aerial photography shows a complex of dykes and buildings on either side of several north-south running tributary burns which feed into the Allt na h-Eirighe which itself has a confluence with the River Loy just to the south. The most northerly of the associated structures is a sheep fold at NGR 210634 784723 (see MHG65414), which may have been constructed out of an abandoned farmstead, with an associated structure which was probably a kiln (see MHG30504). At least three rectangular/sub-rectangular buildings lie immediately to the north and northwest of the probably later circular sheep fold at NGR 210786 784532 (see MHG30739) with a fourth larger rectangular building at NGR 210685 784510. The place name 'Achadh na h-Eirighe' translates as 'Field of the Shieling' and the settlement may have been a later development or expansion of an older shieling site, itself later superceded by at least two sheep folds (as above at the given NGRs). A group of probable shieling huts are located just to the west on the opposite side of the Allt na h-Eirighe (see MHG64513). <1> <2>

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Grid reference	Centred NN 1066 8456 (415m by 397m) (2 map features)
Map sheet	NN18SW
Civil Parish	KILMALLIE
Geographical Area	LOCHABER

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