Inverness, Clachnaharry, Clachnaharry Road, Dunolly View from the east looking west and showing, from left to right, Dunolly, Clachnaharry signal box, the railway swing bridge sitting over the sea loc ...

Description Inverness, Clachnaharry, Clachnaharry Road, Dunolly View from the east looking west and showing, from left to right, Dunolly, Clachnaharry signal box, the railway swing bridge sitting over the sea lock basin

Date 30/3/1999

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

Catalogue Number D 64126 CN

Category Photographs and Off-line Digital Images

Copies SC 799583

Scope and Content Dunolly, Clachnaharry Road, Clachnaharry, Inverness, Highland, from east This shows Dunolly, built in the early 19th century, with the 1909 railway swing bridge (right) and the sea lock basin in the background. The two-storeyed and three-bayed house, built in the early 19th century, has a hipped roof with a central chimney-stack. The two-bayed signal box (centre) is timber-faced with a brick base. The timber frame (foreground) supports the swing bridge when it has been moved into an open position to allow boats into or out of the sea lock basin. This house has a view directly over Clachnaharry Lock and it seems likely that the lock-keeper who opened and closed this lock occupied it. Most of the locks along the canal had an adjacent cottage for the keeper and his family. The signal box would control the movement of trains over the swing bridge. The Caledonian Canal was designed by Thomas Telford (1757-1834) and built between 1803 and 1822 at a cost of £840,000. It was the first example of a transport network funded by the government in Great Britain. The 96.5km-long canal provides a route for boats travelling between the North Sea and Atlantic Ocean as it runs from the Beauly Firth at Clachnaharry, Inverness, to Loch Linnhe at Corpach. Only 35.4km of this length is man-made while the other 61km runs through four lochs: Loch Dochfour, Loch Ness, Loch Oich and Loch Lochy. Unfortunately at 4.2m deep the canal was too small for most sea-going ships which led to it being altered and deepened between 1844 and 1847. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

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