Archaeology Notes

Event ID 693547

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/693547

NR44NW 43 centred 4156 4622

Distillery [NAT]

OS (GIS) MasterMap, March 2010.

EXTERNAL REFERENCE:

NATIONAL ARCHIVES OF SCOTLAND (SRO)

Jura (sic), Ardbeg Distillery.

Distillery. Repairs after fire.

GD 64/3/137

(Undated) information in NMRS.

(Location cited as NR 414 462). Ardbeg Distillery, founded 1815. A most interesting group of buildings including two 3-storey and attic malt barns, one 11 bays long, with double pyramidal-roofed kiln, and the other with a single pyramidal-roofed kiln. There are two pot stills, mash tun and eight wash backs (fermenting vessels). The distillery was formerly served by a small wood-piled pier, now disused.

J R Hume 1977.

A RCAHMS photographic survey of Ardbeg Distillery was conducted, during October 1999, to enhance and augment the National Monuments Record Scotland holdings.

Visited by RCAHMS (MKO), July 1999.