Kilchiaran Farm, Kilchiaran. View of entrances to 3 segmental courtyards.

Description Kilchiaran Farm, Kilchiaran. View of entrances to 3 segmental courtyards.

Date 1974

Collection Records of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS), Edinbu

Catalogue Number AG 6429

Category Photographs and Off-line Digital Images

Copies SC 742652

Scope and Content Entrance to cattle court, Kilchiaran Farm, Kilchiaran, Islay, Argyll & Bute The house and steading of Kilchiaran date from 1826 when a new farm with an Ayrshire tenant was established following the clearance of the old township of Kilchiaran. Its most distinctive feature is a semicircular inner cattle court about 58m in diameter. This is the entrance to the cattle court from the cobbled outer courtyard showing the cylindrical gate piers at the end of the dividing, radiating walls. To the right of the picture is a third gate pier, at the south-east corner of the stable. There was probably a fourth column opposite which was removed when the milking parlour was constructed in the late 19th century. The south-east sector of the cattle court is known to have been altered to accommodate pigs, while the north-west end of the court has been demolished to make space for a corrugated metal Dutch barn (right). Each self-contained sector originally had four large openings spanned by wooden lintels. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

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