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Ice-house
Date 25 August 2009
Event ID 913087
Category Management
Type Site Management
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/913087
Circular. Rubble; domed; lined inside with brick. Earth floor. Entered from passage. (Historic Scotland)
In 1781 one of the vaults in the fosse casements around the castle was trialled as an ice-store but was found to be unsatisfactory, in 1785 Robert Mylne was consulted and sent the Duke a drawing of an ice-house adapted to the ground under the Fosse. Shortly after an expert, William Stothard, was brought to Invereray from Arrochar to advise how to build a detatched ice-house in the grounds. First stocked with ice in January 1786, the total cost, including the ice and a fee of tow guineas to Stothard, was £25 5s 71/2. Whether the ice-house was completed under Mylne's direction is not stated. (Ian G Lindsay and Mary Cosh)
