Lonely Rynechra

There have been many variations of the name Rynechra since it first appeared as Rineckraw on General Roy's 'Great Map' of the mid 17 hundreds means ' Shieling of the Cattle enclosure'. A shieling being  a settlement used as temporary summer grazing for cattle at a time when infields could not provide enough grazing to sustain cattle throughout the year. 

This is recently restored Easter Rynechra now lonely and isolated on Dava Moor -  the farm would once have been part of a small community which included the two nearby farmhouses at Wester Rynechra- now reduced to low walls and the shieling grounds.
In 1901 Easter Rynechra was recorded as having a thatched roof in good repair. 
The extras show the farmhouse and the access track loking across the moorto the Cairngorms.