Coll, Arinagour. General view from East.

Description Coll, Arinagour. General view from East.

Date c. 1898

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

Catalogue Number AG 1399

Category Photographs and Off-line Digital Images

Copies SC 740712

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. Arinagour, set against a landscape of weathered rock outcrops, consists of one main street running parallel to the coast. The landward side is lined with a row of harled or painted rubble cottages on boulder footings, most of which were built by Maclean, laird of Coll, c.1814 in an attempt to modernise the island. Most of Coll, a low, flat island lying parallel to the north-west coast of Mull, is bleak with gnarled lumps of rock protruding through a thin skin of grass and heather. In the late 19th century, dairy and sheep farming, and fishing were the main industries of the island. Dairy farming produced the famous Coll cheese, then Coll's chief export, and ling fishing (a marine fish exported salted and dried) was an important island economy before the stocks were depleted by fishing vessels. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

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