Skye, Macarthur's School Of Piping, Kilmuir
School (Period Unassigned)
Site Name Skye, Macarthur's School Of Piping, Kilmuir
Classification School (Period Unassigned)
Alternative Name(s) Peingown
Canmore ID 11393
Site Number NG47SW 10
NGR NG 4010 7162
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
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- Council Highland
- Parish Kilmuir
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Skye And Lochalsh
- Former County Inverness-shire
NG47SW 10 4010 7162.
(NG 4010 7162) Kilmuir was formerly famous for its pipers, but they are now extinct. When the Macdonalds resided in the parish a free grant of the lands of Peingowen, a hamlet in the place, was given to the MacArthurs, traditional pipers to the MacDonalds. Peingowen, therefore, was a sort of piping school and a little green hill in close vicinity to Peingowen, called Cnoc-phail, was the general rendezvous of the MacArthurs and their pupils.
NSA 1845.
Nothing remains of this piping school but, according to the surviving Kilmuir Macarthur, (Donald MacAurthur, Kilmuir) a croft, No.2 Peingowen, at present unoccupied, stands on its site.
Visited by OS (C F W) 26 April 1961.
