Loch Iain Oig

By the south side of the minor road which runs from Balmacara to Kyle, close to Loch lain Oig is a concrete well head shaped like a small building. The facade of the structure measures O.90m high to the apex and is O.09m wide. A small door-like opening measuring O.30m by 0.20m lies at the bottom centre of the facade. Iron rich water runs from this opening. Above the opening the numbers 929 are cast into the concrete.

This well is becoming very overgrown, the concrete well house appears to be in good condition.

(BAL95 002)

Information from NTS (SCS) January 2016

NG 780 300 (centre) In the springs of 1995 and 1996 a field survey was carried out on the NTS Balmacara Estate. The estate covers approximately 22.5 sqkm of the Lochalsh peninsula. It lies largely within the points of a triangle formed by Kyle in the SW, Plockton in the N and Balmacara in the SE. The range of topographic variation found within the estate largely reflects that found on the W coast of Scotland generally. The range of sites found during the survey reflects this topographic variation.

During two seasons of survey 109 new sites were recorded. A full report is lodged with the NMRS.

1995

NG 72 NE

NG 7921 2895 Chalybeate well, concrete well head.

Sponsors: National Trust for Scotland, Historic Scotland

M Wildgoose 1996

This concrete well head with (1)929 moulded above an opening is as described by Dualchas

NTS ref: BAL 024 (Information from condition report for NTS produced by Jill Harden 2000)

NTS commissioned condition survey undertaken by Jill Harden as follow-up to Dualchas survey