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SRP Archaeology Notes
Date 7 February 2011
Event ID 620328
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Srp Note
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/620328
This farmhouse was built between 1871 (1st edition of the OS 6-inch map (Argyllshire and Buteshire 1871, sheet xliii)) and 1883 (Erskine Bevridge photograph) [see 3 South Cuil]. It had become ruinous by the end of the Second World War but cartographic and photographic evidence shows that it was a T-shaped building with the dwelling quarters at the front and the leg of the T being for agricultural purposes. It was single storied with a couple of skylights suggesting an attic. It had three gables two being chimneyed. The roof of the leg of the T is at a lower level than the rest of the building. Unlike the other holdings on South Cuil this one was a croft, the other three being small-holdings -a big difference legally.
Adjacent to this there are the footings of another building. (NM9840/5511) Looking at 1st and 2nd Ordnance Survey maps this was probably present before the changes that occurred between 1871 and 1883. It can just be made out in the background a photograph by Erskine Beveridge taken on 14th July 1883. [see Possible Fish Trap].
What was left of it was severely damaged when a modern barn was erected and only a few stones can now be identified
