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MHG58538 - Stack Yards, Dutch Barn and Sheep Fank with Concrete Dip - North Cuil

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Five stack yards, a Dutch Barn and a sheep fank with a concrete dip are recorded here.

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A desk-based assessment and walkover survey of Cuil, on the shore of Loch Linnhe, Lochaber, was carried out in 2010 by N Malcolm for RCAHMS' 'Scotland's Rural Past Project'. Five stack stands were still visible here. Each was about 2.5 metres in diameter an were raised about 10 cms above the surrounding ground. It is probable that there were more originally. A little to the north lay the base of a Dutch barn which was built towards the end of the Second World War using timber that had washed up on the shore of Cuil Bay. This was demolished at the end of the 1950s. To the south-west of this area there had been a drystone walled fank. This too was demolished about the same time and replaced by a wooden one. Apart from a concrete dip nothing remains of this. <1> <2>

See HES Canmore recores (link Below) for plan of the stack yard and Dutch barn

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Grid reference	Centred NM 9804 5572 (60m by 60m) (2 map features)
Map sheet	NM95NE
Civil Parish	LISMORE AND APPIN
Geographical Area	LOCHABER

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