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Field Visit
Date August 2011
Event ID 995662
Category Recording
Type Field Visit
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/995662
This large dam, which remains as described in 1983, was designed to divert water via a ditch from the Kilmory River, which flows north from the dammed Loch Long (see NM39NE 38), into a tributary of the Kinloch River some 480m away (at NG 3680 0027) via an artificial cut at its eastern end.
The purpose of this dam was to provide a means of access for salmon from the Kinloch River to the loch, improving both the river and the loch for fishing. Its construction was part of a second phase of works undertaken c1854, the first involving the damming of the Long Loch and the insertion of a cut to take its waters to Kilmory, and the third involving the construction of a dam and aqueduct to carry that outflow into Kinloch River.
Half-way along the cut is a second, smaller dam (NG30SE 56) which is described elsewhere.
Visited by RCAHMS (GFG) August 2011.
