Innisdaimh
Farm (Period Unassigned), Head Dyke (Post Medieval), Township (Period Unassigned)
Site Name Innisdaimh
Classification Farm (Period Unassigned), Head Dyke (Post Medieval), Township (Period Unassigned)
Canmore ID 23964
Site Number NN43NE 2
NGR NN 4601 3566
NGR Description Centred NN 4601 3566
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/23964
- Council Stirling
- Parish Killin
- Former Region Central
- Former District Stirling
- Former County Perthshire
NN43NE 2 Centred 4601 3566.
(Area centred: NN 4601 3566) Five buildings shown, un-named, in 1747 (W Roy MS Map of Scotland 1747) shown as one roofed and four roofless buildings, named Innisdaimh (NAT) in 1867 (OS 6" map).
There are the low dry stone wall foundations of four isolated buildings, which are square cornered and average 11.0m long by 3.5m wide, and two similar buildings built along two sides of an enclosure. This seems to have been a small settlement pre-dating the ruined farm of Innisdaimh which lies to the north east.
Visited by OS (GHP) 6 July 1962
No change.
Visited by OS (RD) 14 August 1969
A township, comprising two roofed, six unroofed buildings, one unroofed structure, two enclosures, a field-system and a head-dyke is depicted on the 1st edition of the OS 6-inch map (Perthshire 1867, sheet lxvii). Eight unroofed buildings, two enclosures, the field-system and the head-dyke are shown on the current edition of the OS 1:10000 map (1992).
Information from RCAHMS (AKK) 26 February 1998.
Field Visit (2010)
NN 4570 3540 and NN 4565 3425 (shieling group)
As part of ACFA’s ongoing survey of Upper Glen Lochay, fieldwork was carried out in 2010 on Innisdaimh on the S side of the River Lochay. A number of dry stone structures were recorded including houses, barns, byres and a grain-drying kiln. On the E bank of Allt Innisdaimh a complex of houses and enclosures was also drawn. A small sherd of medieval pottery was found on a molehill close to this complex. At the shieling site several dry stone buildings were surveyed. Two bloomery sites were also identified. Documentary research undertaken at RCAHMS may have successfully linked a former tacksman, James MacVean, with one of the surveyed houses.
Report: RCAHMS and Stirling and Clackmannanshire SMR
(intended)
B Henry and D MacInnes 2010
