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Millof Carwhin
Building (Period Unassigned), Grain Mill (Period Unassigned), Lade (Period Unassigned)
Site Name Millof Carwhin
Classification Building (Period Unassigned), Grain Mill (Period Unassigned), Lade (Period Unassigned)
Alternative Name(s) Blarmore, Carie
Canmore ID 140360
Site Number NN63NE 69
NGR NN 65098 37289
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/140360
- Council Perth And Kinross
- Parish Kenmore (Perth And Kinross)
- Former Region Tayside
- Former District Perth And Kinross
- Former County Perthshire
NN63NE 69 65098 37289
A single unroofed building is depicted on the 1st edition of the OS 6-inch map (Perthshire 1867, sheet lxix), but it is not shown on the current edition of the OS 1:10000 map (1981).
Information from RCAHMS (AKK) 23 February 1998.
NN 65098 37289 The remains of a mill, its lade, and at least one other building stand in birch woodland on the W bank of the Allt an Tuim Bhric, about 500m SE of Carie farmsteading.
The Allt an Tuim Bhric has cut a broad steep-sided gully here, and the mill (BL00 1038) stands at the bottom of this. It measures 8.2m from NE to SW by 3.3m transversely within rubble walls up to 0.5m in height, and it has an entrance in the SE side. The wheel pit was at the NE end of the building, but it has been largely washed out. The lade runs downhill towards the mill from the NW. It survives as a dry gully, about 1.5m deep, and can be traced for about 100m, from NN 65011 37338 to a point immediately above the site of the wheel pit. In places it is densely overgrown, but towards its NW end a short stretch of revetment walling is visible in its NE side.
About 15m E of the mill, immediately above the burn, there is a possible building stance, of which only the S end is well-defined. Another building, in a much better state of preservation, stands 25m S of the mill at NN 65091 37256 (BL00 1037). It measures 11.7m from NE to SW by 3.3m within walls up to 1.2m in height except for the almost-complete NE gable, which stands 2m high. There is a window in the SE side, but the position of the entrance is not apparent. An outshot, measuring internally 3.4m by 2.4m is attached to the SW end. A later drystone dyke runs N from the NE gable, and the building is now crossed by a modern fence.
John Farquharson's 1769 Survey of the North Side of Loch Tay (National Archives of Scotland, RHP 973/1, Plan 8) depicts a 'miln' and a second building in the approximate positions of the two buildings just described. The survey also shows the lade, springing from the burn about 250m NW of the mill at NN c.6493 3747 and running past the NE end of the mill. The 1st edition of the OS 6-inch map (Perthshire 1867, sheet lxix) does not depict the mill, though the building to the S is shown roofless. The latter building only is shown on the 1st edition of the OS 6-inch map (Perthshire 1867, sheet lxix).
(BL00 1037-8, 2542)
Visited by RCAHMS (SDB) 22 June 2000
The mill of Carwhin is on record from at least 1672. In 1786 the tenants of Carwhin and of the neighbouring district of Crannich petitioned that a new mill should be erected to serve both districts, a proposal that appears to have been approved.
J Harrison 2003 (RCAHMS MS 1155/6)
