Field Visit
Date May 1978
Event ID 693276
Category Recording
Type Field Visit
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/693276
NR35NW 11 c.303 554
There are no visible remains of the cast-iron bridge which was described in 1811 as being light and elegant' and having 'stood several years'. (MacDonald 1811) It was erected at a cost of about £140, much of which was contributed by Walter Campbell of Shawfield and Islay. According to the same source, the bridge spanned 'a considerable stream' and was situated 'between Bowmore village and Laggan Bay'. The site of this bridge over a tributary of the River Duich is commemorated by the name 'An Drochaid laruinn' that has continued to be applied to its masonry-built successor, and J G MacNeill, writing in 1900, recorded that as a boy he had seen fragments of the iron bridge in his grandfather's house at Duich. (MacNeill 1900; Islay Stent Book 1890)
Visited May 1978
RCAHMS 1984
