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Recording Your Heritage Online
Event ID 564551
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Recording Your Heritage Online
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/564551
Nearby, various early 19th century structures bear witness to the extensive cattle breeding and fishing interests of the tacksman/ merchant and sheriff, Lachlan Mackinnon, "in the absence of Lord Macdonald, for many years the most prominent personage in the island":
Mackinnon's Pier, "a commodious little pier at a short distance from his mansion"; fishgutting and packing station, converted to stables/ steadings and later ruinous, although formed from one byre range is the chapel of St. Maol Ruadh (RC), 2000, with stained glass window by Ian Chard. Boat/coach house, c.1800,a rustic pedimented pavilion backing onto the courtyard, with rubbly engaged columns between pretty round-arched windows to upper floor. Former Campbell's Temperance Hotel, c.1880, a tall, tenement-like pair of storm-dormered buildings, echoing the commercial premises at Broadford, and the pair that formerly stood at Eilean Iarmain.
Taken from "Western Seaboard: An Illustrated Architectural Guide", by Mary Miers, 2008. Published by the Rutland Press http://www.rias.org.uk
