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Latitude: 54.6839 / 54°41'2"N
Longitude: -4.959 / 4°57'32"W
OS Eastings: 209351
OS Northings: 536116
OS Grid: NX093361
Mapcode National: GBR GJ4B.782
Mapcode Global: WH2TD.SJRL
Entry Name: Barncorkrie,farmstead 350m NNW of
Scheduled Date: 19 March 1990
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
Source ID: SM4733
Schedule Class: Cultural
Category: Secular: farmstead
Location: Kirkmaiden
County: Dumfries and Galloway
Electoral Ward: Stranraer and the Rhins
Traditional County: Wigtownshire
The monument is a pre-improvement farmstead situated on a smallterrace at the edge of a field of improved pasture to the S ofBarncorkrie Moor. It consists of a two-compartment rectangularbuilding 6.7m E-W by 3.9m internally, within walls 1.4m thick and0.3m high, and a second, smaller building parallel to it to the N.The area to be scheduled includes the farmstead and an area aroundit within which traces of activity associated with its use may befound. It measures 50m NNE-SSW by 30m transversely, bounded by, butexcluding, the dyke to the W, as marked in red on the attached map.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
The monument is of national importance as a pre-improvement farmstead which has the potential to enhance considerably our understanding of medieval and later settlement in the area.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
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Source: Historic Environment Scotland
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