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Architecture Notes
Event ID 777121
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Architecture Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/777121
NN30NW 4.00 34860 09629
NN30NW 4.01 34861 09611 South Barrack Block
For Garrison Farm see NN30NW 37 34839 09614
NMRS REFERENCE:
Acc. No: 1993/179
'A Series of Sketches of the existing Localities alluded to in the Waverley Novels. Etched from original drawings by James Skene Esq. Edinburgh 1829'
page 53
(....'these Sketches do not presume to claim any merit beyond that of strict fidelity ; with this proviso, that such subjects as are now in ruins, are, where practicable, restored to the state they were in at the particular period assumed by the Author of Waverley')
EXTERNAL REFERENCE:
Scottish Record Office
GD 220/5/823/10
Proposed barrack to be built at Inversnaid.
Estimate sought. Letter from the Duke of Montrose to Mungo Graham of Gorthie, 1717
GD 220/5/824/25
Building of the large Barracks.
James Smith Architect [c.1645 - 1731] had called to show the Duke of Montrose several draughts of the large barracks to be built. Letter from the Duke of Montrose to Mungo Graham of Gorthie, 1718
GD 220/5/980
Money spent on building the Garrison.
Claim for compensation by Montrose. Letter from the Duke of Montrose to David Graeme of Orchill, 1718
GD/220/6/1400/33, 35-40
Building and furnishing the Barracks. Receipted accounts for mason, wright, smith and thatcher work, 1749-50
GD/220/6/1405/23-26
Building the new barracks. Accounts for work, 1750-52
GD/220/6/834/17
Thatching the barrack with brackan. Receipt, 1761
GD 220/6/374/1
Inversnaid. Demolition of Inversnaid Fort.
Letter from Andrew MacGeorge, younger, to the Duke of Montrose. He expresses surprise at the demolition of Inversnaid Fort. He urges an interdict against this as 'part of the history of our country', 1839
NN30NW 9.00 34860 09629
NN30NW 9.01 34861 09611
National Library of Scotland:
'MSS. 1645 - 1652'. Volume, No.1648
Series of military maps and drawings (many coloured) of the Board of Ordnance, relating to the 18th Century
No.Z.3/11.
No date. 'Explanation of the Plan Section and Elevation of the Barracks at Inversnaid
No.Z.3/17.
No date. 'Inversnait, Plan, Sections & Elevations of Barracks.' With explanation. Scale 10 feet to an inch. There is a copy, and also a small-scale engraving. Copy in NMRS
No.Z.3/18.
No date. Small-scale plans, sections and elevations of the Barracks of Killiwhiman, Inversnait, Ruthven of Badenoch, and Bernera, with Explanations.Scale 30 feet to an inch. There are copies. This drawing is indexed under all the names mentioned.
Non-Guardianship Sites Plan Collection, DC28016- DC28019, 1719, 1725 & 1746.
Gives the plans, elevations and sections to the small scale of 30 feet to an inch. There is also a copy. This drawing is also indexed under Kiliwhiman.
