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Latitude: 54.9638 / 54°57'49"N
Longitude: -4.8975 / 4°53'51"W
OS Eastings: 214601
OS Northings: 567078
OS Grid: NX146670
Mapcode National: GBR GH8L.CF4
Mapcode Global: WH2S2.RH1K
Entry Name: Cairnerzean,farmstead 350m S of
Scheduled Date: 28 October 1991
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
Source ID: SM5126
Schedule Class: Cultural
Category: Secular: farmstead
Location: Inch
County: Dumfries and Galloway
Electoral Ward: Mid Galloway and Wigtown West
Traditional County: Wigtownshire
This farmstead comprises two stone buildings to the N and S of a more recently ruined stone building S of Cairnerzean Farm. There are also some clearance cairns to the S. The N building is clipped by a track.
The area proposed for scheduling includes the two farmstead buildings, the later building, the cairns and a section of the later enclosure wall. It measures 100m E-W by 150m N-S and the SW corner is at 14556700. It is marked in red on the attached map.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
This monument is of national importance firstly as part of a group of pre-improvement farms between the Main Water of Luce and Cairnerzean Fell and secondly as a multi-period group of monuments. It therefore has the potential to give information about the pre-improvement use and layout of the landscape over a period of time in which changes have occurred.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
Bibliography
RCAHMS records the monument as NX 16 NW 31.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
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