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Archaeology Notes
Event ID 689524
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/689524
NN21NE 5.01 22524 17459
Formerly entered in error at cited location NN 22524 71745.
Dam [NAT]
OS 1:10,000 map, 1976.
(Name cited as Allt-na-Lairige, and date as 1959). This pre-stressed gravity dam was built as part of the Glen Shira [2nd] phase of the Loch Sloy scheme; there was a tunnel to a power station on the River Fyne. The contractors were Maples, Ridgway and Partners Ltd.
The average annual output of the Allt na Lairige scheme is 20 million units.
J Miller 2002.
This dam has been built across the Allt na Lairige; the location assigned to this record defines the centre of the structure. The available map evidence indicates that it extends from NN c. 25201 17639 to NN c. 25290 17262.
Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 29 December 2005.
