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Latitude: 54.9631 / 54°57'47"N
Longitude: -4.922 / 4°55'19"W
OS Eastings: 213034
OS Northings: 567067
OS Grid: NX130670
Mapcode National: GBR GH7L.D6V
Mapcode Global: WH2S2.CJF2
Entry Name: Cairnerzean,farmstead 1650m WSW of
Scheduled Date: 14 October 1991
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
Source ID: SM5111
Schedule Class: Cultural
Category: Secular: farmstead
Location: Inch
County: Dumfries and Galloway
Electoral Ward: Mid Galloway and Wigtown West
Traditional County: Wigtownshire
This farmstead stands on the NW side of Cairnerzean Fell. It is covered by close cropped grass, clumps of sedge and some heather. The farmstead comprises one rectangular building plus a yard, enclosure and annexe to the SE.
The area proposed for scheduling is a 100m square centred on the rectangular building's SE corner, to include not only the surviving visible traces of the farmstead but an area around it in which further traces of its use may survive.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
This monument is of national importance as one of a group of pre-improvement farms to the W of the present Cairnerzean steading which offer information concerning the arrangement of farm buildings and use of the landscape before the agricultural improvements.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
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RCAHMS records the monument as NX 16 NW 33.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
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