Archaeology Notes

Event ID 764279

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NN17NW 21 11958 75526 (NN 11960 755586 to NN 11954 75468)

Not to be confused with Banavie, Railway Swing Bridge (NN17NW 19).

This viaduct was built to carry the Mallaig extension of the West Highland Rly (a subsidiary of the North British Rly) across the River Lochy supported on cylindrical cast-iron piers which were finished in masonry above the high-water mark.

M Smith 1994.

This bridge crosses the River Lochy at Castle Pool, where it forms the boundary between the parishes of Kilmallie and Kilmonivaig.

Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 17 June 1996.