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Archaeology Notes
Event ID 673474
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/673474
NM22SE 21 2607 2185
(NM 2607 2185) Laraichean (NR) (In ruins)
OS 6" map, Argyllshire, 2nd ed., (1900)
A small settlement defined by low stone walls forming circular enclosures and huts of various sizes; a small stone cairn (or collapsed corbelled structure); and a sizeable bank protecting the settlement from the sea, on the crest of a steeply shelving shingle beach.
Crawford noted a horse-shoe shaped enclosure at NM 2606 2190 which is presumably associated with the settlement. The name "Laraichean" means "foundations" and applies to what is said to be the original Columban settlement of 563.
The settlement may possibly be prehistoric since it looks medieval at least (Thomas 1959).
A C Thomas 1959; Name Book 1878; O G S Crawford 1933; OS 6" map annotated by O G S Crawford, 1935.
The remains of a small steading bounded on its SW side by a stone wall, and consisting of a small sub-rectangular building, two stock enclosures, and an unidentifiable structure, all of uncertain date but probably medieval.
Visited by OS (DWR) 8 June 1972.
