Portuairk

Linear holdings provided for those evicted during the 1820s and 50s characterise townships created at that time, such as Portuairk (reached by road only in 1950-1) and Sanna, whose children walked over the hills to school at Achosnich. Most dwellings intact today are those 'improved' with housing grants and loans available after 1926, now mostly holiday cottages. Achnaha remains a honeycomb of broken walling, although a barn (still in use) and a house have recently been re-thatched. Eastwards, where the landscape is refreshed with sweet green grazings, townships were cleared c.1850 for the Swordle and Ockle farms (some holdings being reassigned after the Great War).

Taken from "Western Seaboard: An Illustrated Architectural Guide", by Mary Miers, 2008. Published by the Rutland Press http://www.rias.org.uk

NM46NW 12 centred on 437 681.

See also NM46NW 8

A township comprising two unroofed buildings, one partially roofed building, which has a rounded end and may therefore be a kiln barn, eighteen roofed buildings and a head-dyke is depicted on the 1st edition of the OS 6-inch map (Argyllshire 1876, sheet xiv). Five unroofed, one partially roofed, eighteen roofed buildings, eight enclosures, some field walls and a head-dyke are shown on the current edition of the OS 1:10000 map (1974).

Information from RCAHMS (SAH) 16 April 1998