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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.