Edramucky

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This farmstead stands in open woodland 560m ESE of Edramucky. It was obscured by vegetation on the date of visit, but it comprises at least three buildings and an enclosure. Two of the buildings are in a better state of preservation than the third, and may be of a later date. The larger of the two (BL00 707) measures 10.2m from ENE to WSW by 3.1m transversely within a rubble walls up to 1.5m in height. Heaps of rubble at each end suggest that it had stone gables, now collapsed. The second building (BL00 708) stands about 10m to the W, and measures 7m from NNW to SSE by 3.8m transversely within walls standing up to 2m high at the sides and 3.5m high at the NNW gable. It has an entrance on the ENE and the interior has been divided into two compartments, connected by an internal doorway. Attached to the WSW side there is a subrectangular enclosure, which measures about 15m by 15m. The third building lies immediately to the E of the first, and parallel to it. It has been reduced to grass-grown footings 0.3m in height, and measures internally 14.2m by 3.6m.

John Farquharson's 1769 Survey of the North Side of Loch Tay (National Archives of Scotland, RHP 973/1, Plan 5) depicts a farmstead at this location comprising three buildings and two enclosures in a layout very similar to that of the structures just described. Two roofed buildings (BL00 707-8) and one enclosure are shown on the 1st edition of the OS 6-inch map (Perthshire 1867, sheet LXIX), but both buildings were roofless by 1900, the date of the 2nd edition of that map (Perthshire 1900, sheet LXIX SW).

(BL00 707-8, 2054, 2574)

Visited by RCAHMS (ATW and MFTR) 5 July 2000 and (SDB) 10 March 2004.