Recording Your Heritage Online
Event ID 564318
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Recording Your Heritage Online
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/564318
Rudha na Glas-Lice (point of the grey flat rock)
Slate workers' boat houses and sheds (some in pairs), c.1860s, shingled with Ballachulish slate quarry refuse, their roofs of large slate slabs. (Others can still be seen east of the village.)
['It is calculated that a 'crew' [of 4 slaters] might be able to quarry one hundred and four thousand slates in a year' (William Daniell, 1818). Wagons of slate from the working face were conveyed on a tramway to the lochside, where they were then split into required thicknesses.]
Taken from "Western Seaboard: An Illustrated Architectural Guide", by Mary Miers, 2008. Published by the Rutland Press http://www.rias.org.uk
