Archaeology Notes

Event ID 870660

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NS06NW 100 02446 68576

Achavoulaig is a working farmsteading containing a mixture of 19th and 20th century buildings and sheds, none of which have been recorded in detail. There was no farmsteading here in the 18th century when the area was mapped by Roy (1747-55) and May (1780), the land, which formed part of ‘Drumochloy’, being mainly moor, with only relatively small patches of cultivation. Even as late as the 1820s the main farmstead (NS06NW 70) in the area was situated some 400m to the NW, and settlement is first shown here on the 1st edition of the OS 6-inch map (Argyllshire and Buteshire 1869, Sheet CXCIII). ‘Achawillag’ comprised buildings around four sides of a yard with narrow gaps at the NW ends of the NE and SW sides. An L-plan range that occupied the NE and SE sides of the yard contained a farmhouse in its NE wing with a garden immediately NE. The 2nd edition of the OS 25-inch map (1897, Sheet CXCIII.16) shows that among the additions made to the steading in the late 19th century was a horse-engine adjacent to the SE side of the SE range.

Visited by RCAHMS (GFG) 22 March 2009.