Dalilea
Tacksmans House (Post Medieval)
Site Name Dalilea
Classification Tacksmans House (Post Medieval)
Alternative Name(s) Loch Shiel, Dalelia; Daililea
Canmore ID 105981
Site Number NM76NW 12
NGR NM 7342 6933
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/105981
- Council Highland
- Parish Arisaig And Moidart
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Lochaber
- Former County Inverness-shire
Dalilea (Dail an Leigh - physician's meadow), c.1790/1800; refronted, 1907 A tall, harled and slated tacksman's house (incorporating parts of an earlier house to the rear), raised a storey and dressed up with pepperpots and crowsteps for Lord Howard of Glossop. The house, which features significantly in Moidart's history, was built by Alexander "the banker", son of Allan Macdonald of Dalilea, scion of an important cadet branch of the Clanranalds. Surviving in the courtyard range of farm offices to rear, a good bank barn; substantial watermill by burn.
Taken from "Western Seaboard: An Illustrated Architectural Guide", by Mary Miers, 2008. Published by the Rutland Press http://www.rias.org.uk
Photographic Survey (September 1963)
Three photographs of Dalilea House, Inverness-shire, by the Scottish National Buildings Record in 1963.
