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Latitude: 54.9748 / 54°58'29"N
Longitude: -4.8539 / 4°51'13"W
OS Eastings: 217445
OS Northings: 568190
OS Grid: NX174681
Mapcode National: GBR 40.XQNH
Mapcode Global: WH2S3.D7V3
Entry Name: Craigbirnoch,farmstead 770m SSE of
Scheduled Date: 22 March 1991
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
Source ID: SM5046
Schedule Class: Cultural
Category: Secular: farmstead
Location: New Luce
County: Dumfries and Galloway
Electoral Ward: Mid Galloway and Wigtown West
Traditional County: Wigtownshire
The monument is a pre-improvement farmstead 170m WNW of the ruinous 19th century steading of Craigbirnoch. It consists of two rectangular buildings, a small yard, and a kiln. There are traces of other small enclosures or buildings, and rig-and-furrow cultivation, downslope from the the houses. The area to be scheduled includes the farmstead and an area around it within which traces of activity associated with its use may be found. It is a rectangle measuring 100m NE-SW by a maximum of 90m transversely, bounded by a ruinous drystone dyke to the SE, 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 land organisation and agriculture.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
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RCAHMS records the monument as NX 16 NE 40.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
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