General view of Portnacroish showing Strathappin House, Rosebank and Episcopal Church of St Cross
SC 747768
Description General view of Portnacroish showing Strathappin House, Rosebank and Episcopal Church of St Cross
Date 1883
Collection Papers of Erskine Beveridge, antiquarian, Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland
Catalogue Number SC 747768
Category On-line Digital Images
Copy of AG 1662
Scope and Content Portnacroish, Argyll & Bute Portnacroish, a tiny village at the head of the broad mountain valley of Strath Appin, lies near Loch Laich on the west Appin coast. This photograph of the village was taken in 1883 by the Victorian photographer, Erskine Beveridge. The village, a scattering of buildings spread out along the narrow road that winds through the valley, has some early 19th-century rubble cottages (right and centre), and a large, two-storeyed manse (centre), Strathappin House, built in the early 19th century. The simple, gable-ended Free Church (left), dates from 1846. The area is essentially West Highland country, with stone-built grazing enclosures for sheep and cattle stretching up into the surrounding hills. The valley floor was cultivated with oats, potatoes, turnips and hay, most of these being consumed on the local farms or used as winter feed for animals. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
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