Inverness, Clachnaharry, Clachnaharry Road, Dunolly View from the south-east showing Dunolly and Clachnaharry signal box, with the sea lock basin on the extreme right Digital image of D 64128 CN

Description Inverness, Clachnaharry, Clachnaharry Road, Dunolly View from the south-east showing Dunolly and Clachnaharry signal box, with the sea lock basin on the extreme right Digital image of D 64128 CN

Date 30/3/1999

Collection Records of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS), Edinbu

Catalogue Number SC 799580

Category On-line Digital Images

Copy of D 64128 CN

Scope and Content Dunolly, Clachnaharry Road, Clachnaharry, Inverness, Highland, from east-south-east This shows Dunolly, built in the early 19th century, with a railway signal box (centre) and the sea lock basin in the background. The two-storeyed house has dressed margins around the windows and a hipped roof with a central chimney-stack. The signal box is timber-faced with a brick base and is located next to the railway swing bridge over the canal. The sea lock basin, built between 1810 and 1811, is at the northern end of the canal. This house has a view directly over Clachnaharry Lock and it seems likely that the lock-keeper who opened and closed this lock occupied it. Most of the locks along the canal had an adjacent cottage for the keeper and his family. The signal box would control the movement of trains over the swing bridge. The Caledonian Canal was designed by Thomas Telford (1757-1834) and built between 1803 and 1822 at a cost of £840,000. It was the first example of a transport network funded by the government in Great Britain. The 96.5km-long canal provides a route for boats travelling between the North Sea and Atlantic Ocean as it runs from the Beauly Firth at Clachnaharry, Inverness, to Loch Linnhe at Corpach. Only 35.4km of this length is man-made while the other 61km runs through four lochs: Loch Dochfour, Loch Ness, Loch Oich and Loch Lochy. Unfortunately at 4.2m deep the canal was too small for most sea-going ships which led to it being altered and deepened between 1844 and 1847. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.

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