Architecture Notes

Event ID 696889

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Architecture Notes

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NG15SE 79 19077 53836

Macrimmon Memorial Cairn [NAT]

OS (GIS) MasterMap, July 2009.

See also:

NG15SE 4 NG 1891 5363 MacCrimmon School of Piping

NG15SE 70 NG 18735 53604 School (Piping Heritage Museum)

The Macrimmons of Skye, hereditary pipers to the Macleods of Dunvegan, had a regular school or college for pipers on Borreraig farm, opposite Dunvegan Castle across Loch Follart. The school was endowed with a grant of the farm, but in the late 18th century the endowment was withdrawn and the establishment broken up. In 1838 the land was divided up into a number of small holdings.

The college building was divided into two parts, classroom and sleeping quarters; the pupils practised in a hollow nearby.

In 1933 a memorial cairn was erected at NG 1904 5281 with the Gaelic inscription ' ...near this spot stood the Macrimmon School of Music 1500-1800.'

Visited by OS (C F W), 5 May 1961.

New Statistical Account (NSA) 1845; F T Macleod 1933; I F Grant 1959.