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Date 24 April 2022
Event ID 1157055
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Note
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1157055
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This bothy is situated in the Lairig Ghru, the high pass that divides the Cairngorm Mountains in two, and some 10km from the public road at the Linn of Dee. It was constructed in the 1870s as a deer-watcher’s hut, one of several on Mar Lodge estate, but closed in the 1920s (Allan 2017, 175). By 1928 Corrour had become a well-known retreat for mountaineers and the first visitor’s book recorded more than 2,000 climbers between June 1928 and July 1933 (Dundee Courier, 7 July 1933, p.6). The Cairngorm Club carried out repairs to the bothy in 1949 and it was adopted by the Mountain Bothies Association in 1967.
A roofed building annotated ‘Bothy’ is depicted on the 2nd edition of the OS 6-inch map (Inverness-shire, sheet civ, 1902). The footings of another building of unclear date and function lie immediately to the E of the current bothy.
Information from HES Archaeological Survey (D D M Bratt) 6 July 2022
(Allan 2017, 174-7)
