Looking along the shore at Port Appin, from south

Description Looking along the shore at Port Appin, from south

Date 3/8/1883

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

Catalogue Number SC 742963

Category On-line Digital Images

Copy of AG 1729

Scope and Content Port Appin, Argyll & Bute Port Appin, a small village on the ragged south-west coast of Appin, lies between Loch Laich and Airds Bay. This photograph, taken in 1883 looking north towards the mountains of Glencoe in the far distance, is by the Victorian photographer, Erskine Beveridge. The village overlooks the Lynn of Lorne, the narrow stretch of water that separates the mainland of Appin from the island of Lismore. In the 19th century Port Appin was an important ferry point for the island, with a ferry house (right), an early 19th-century painted rubble cottage with a bow-front to the sea. A ferry, a traditional single-masted open boat, lies drawn up on the shore. This was the ancient land of the Stewarts of Appin, descendants of the former Stewart lords of Lorn, who acquired extensive rights and possessions in the late 15th and early 16th centuries. The Stewarts built Castle Stalker, a 16th-century fortified house, on a rocky islet at the mouth of Loch Laich, in order to guard the Appin coast. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

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