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Note
Date 1994
Event ID 1047638
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Note
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1047638
According to PW F Whitall, this building is locally known as 'The Coalery' (1994). It is the only building associated with the island quarries (apart from the worker's housing in Easdale village) that is still in use. It is similar in style and character to The Forge and The Engine House (NM71NW 132 and NM71NW 133). It is noted that 'the 1896 map' (see NMS/8087/4 - annotated map based on the 2nd edition Ordnance Survey map (Argyllshire, revised 1898, published 1899, sheet CXXI.11)] shows tramway rails entering the building. This suggests that it was a locomotive shed. It is also noted that wooden sleepers survived in 1994. An upper floor or hay loft suggests that it was used as horse stabling, perhaps prior to the introduction of locomotives to haul quarry bogeys or wagons in the 1860s. Withall suggests that the building dates from sometime in the 1830s (when horse-drawn tramways were introduced) to the 1880s (after which locomotives were no longer in use by the quarries).
The name 'Coalery' or 'Coalry' seems to post-date its association with quarrying.
Information from National Record of the Historic Environment manuscript: MS8087/1
