Kilchiaran Farm, Kilchiaran. View from South East. Digital image of AG 6426
SC 742654
Description Kilchiaran Farm, Kilchiaran. View from South East. Digital image of AG 6426
Date 1974
Collection Records of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS), Edinbu
Catalogue Number SC 742654
Category On-line Digital Images
Copy of AG 6426
Scope and Content Waterwheel and sluice gate, 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 shows the waterwheel (left) and sluice gate (right) from the south-east. The wheel is a narrow, iron, low breastshot type with an internal rim drive. It measures 4.8m in diameter and its rim is just over 0.8m wide. It was made by P & R Fleming of Glasgow. The waterwheel was turned by water from the nearby mill pond which was channelled along a lade. The sluice gates controlled the flow of water to the wheel and to the side hatch. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
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