Coll, Arinagour. General view of Harbour from North.

Description Coll, Arinagour. General view of Harbour from North.

Date c. 1898

Collection Papers of Erskine Beveridge, antiquarian, Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland

Catalogue Number AG 1651

Category Photographs and Off-line Digital Images

Copies SC 740715

Scope and Content Arinagour, Coll, Argyll & Bute Arinagour, a tiny settlement of trim whitewashed cottages on the south-west tip of the inlet of Loch Eatharna, is the only village and harbour on the island of Coll. The village was photographed c.1898 by the Victorian photographer, Erskine Beveridge. The village consists of a main street running parallel to the shore, with a single row of early 19th-century harled or painted rubble cottages on boulder footings, most of which were built by Maclean, laird of Coll, in an attempt to modernise the island. The pier, a rubble jetty (centre) constructed c.1843, served as a landing stage for local fishing boats, and for the open rowing boats that transferred goods to and from the steamers anchored offshore. Arinagour, which in Gaelic means the 'shieling of the goats', was the hub of the island, and contained the post office, shop, two churches, smithy and hotel. In the late 19th-century trading vessels called here, as did the steamer from Glasgow on her ten-day run from the River Clyde, and moored offshore while all goods, including passengers, cattle and sheep, were transferred into open rowing boats for the journey to the pier. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

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