Corrycharmaig
No Class (Event)
Site Name Corrycharmaig
Classification No Class (Event)
Canmore ID 244032
Site Number NN53NW 38
NGR NN 527 358
NGR Description Centred NN 527 358
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
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- Council Stirling
- Parish Killin
- Former Region Central
- Former District Stirling
- Former County Perthshire
NN53NW 38 centred 527 358
NN 527 358 (centre) A survey was undertaken in the area around the former farmhouse of Corrycharmaig lying across the River Lochay from Duncroisk. The survey was carried out using tape-offset to measure the features at 1:100 and 1:200. The whole area was surveyed by EDM at a scale of 1:1000. The survey includes all the archaeological remains as found. A total of 69 features were recorded.
- ?Prehistoric oval and round footings.
- ?Prehistoric artificial platforms.
- ?Medieval turf and stone footings of three dwellings, each with an associated corn-drying kiln. The latter consist of hillslope scoops with an added flue.
- Pre-improvement dykes and turf footings of dwellings and associated buildings.
- Improvement dwellings and associated structures including a corn-drying kiln.
- Improvement stock dykes and a sheep fank.
- 19th-century chromate workings were also recorded, and drawnock dykes and a sheep fank.
Sponsor: ACFA
D MacInnes and M Gill 2002.
Field Visit (2012)
Further survey work was carried out on Corrycharmaig (NN 527 358), Duncroisk (NN 530 363), Easter Tullich (NN 526 367) and Tirai (NN 529 367). Of greatest significance over the past year was the discovery, during archival research, of three 17th-century references to a Croftravie or Croftrevie, listed between Innischoarach (NN 493 367) and Corrycharmaig Farms. In 1634–35 Jon and Donald McInnes, the latter a shepherd, lived there, but by 1688, two McGrigors, Jon and Duncan, were in residence. No other references to Croftravie have been found to date.
Intensive fieldwork, carried out on Corrycharmaig from March to May 2012, discovered the presence, in the oak woods bounding the S banks of the River Lochay, of a small cluster of dry stone structures including a house and outbuildings (NN 5122 3661). It is a possibility that these remains are those of Croftravie. The other findings from the survey comprise shieling-type huts, field systems and several dry stone buildings, one of which is extant to 2.9m high (NN 5141 3649).
On Duncroisk, a survey of a small group of shieling huts above the old head dyke was undertaken (NN 5381 3654). An area of improved ground (NN 5359 3756) immediately below an improvement dyke was also surveyed, including several dry stone and turf buildings and the remains of activities from the Breadalbane Hydro-electric Project of the 1950s.
An update on ACFA’s initial survey in Glen Lochay on Tirai and Easter Tullich is underway. Archaeological features that were noted above an improvement dyke in the early 1990s have been drawn and fieldwalking above the old head dyke is nearing completion. Here, a small group of five shieling huts were recorded in October (NN 5297 3734).
Three ACFA Occasional Papers have been published this year: Tomochrocher, Batavaime and Tuerichan, the latter a former farm now subsumed within Corrycharmaig.
Archive: ACFA Occasional Papers are deposited with RCAHMS and the Stirling and Clackmannanshire SMR
Dugald MacInnes, Association of Certificated Field Archaeologists (ACFA)
2012