Desk Based Assessment
Date 22 March 2009
Event ID 587296
Category Recording
Type Desk Based Assessment
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/587296
There is no evidence on maps and estate plans, including Roy (1747-55) and May (c 1780), that a farmstead or any other form of settlement existed on or around the present farmsteading of Achavoulaig before about the middle of the 19th century. A source for the name ‘Cromchlar Butt' is not provided by the previous authority, but a large enclosure called 'Cromachan Park' (centred on NS 0219 6865) is depicted here on Mackinlay's map of North Bute (1823). That map shows that the original farmstead (NS06NW 70) stood some 415 NW of the present steading.
Visited by RCAHMS (GFG, PJD) 22 March 2009.
