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Croft house
Date 21 January 2010
Event ID 914179
Category Management
Type Site Management
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/914179
Former croft house, single storey with central door and windows to either side. Chimney stacks in each gable end. Probably originally with thatched roof, now corrugated iron.
A remainder of the crofting township of Ardfernal, RCHAMS note the township comprised three unroofed buildings, one partially roofed long building, twelve roofed buildings, one of which is a long building, seven enclosures, a limekiln and a head-dyke is depicted on the OS 1st edition 6-inch map of 1882. Some of the former croft houses have been restored and brought back into use, others have been restored as holiday accomodation.
