Loch Kennard
Island Dwelling (Medieval)
Site Name Loch Kennard
Classification Island Dwelling (Medieval)
Canmore ID 26231
Site Number NN94NW 1
NGR NN 9089 4605
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/26231
- Council Perth And Kinross
- Parish Logierait
- Former Region Tayside
- Former District Perth And Kinross
- Former County Perthshire
NN94NW 1 9089 4605.
(Classified as building and artificial island (possible)). The thick ruined walls of some ancient building on a circular island in Loch Kennard are noticed by both Ferguson and Stuart. The latter lists the island as a crannog. (The island at NN 9089 4605 may be the one concerned).
J Ferguson 1891; J Stuart 1864
(Classification amended to island dwelling). NN 9089 4605: The remains of this building, surviving to a maximum height of 1.7m, measure 6.3m E-W by 3.4m within well-constructed walls 0.7m thick, of unmortared roughly coursed stone. There is a doorway at the E end of the S side and the remains of a splayed window in the W end. It is not possible, without excavation, to ascertain the date or purposed of this building.
The island on which it stands measures 18.0m N-S x 16.0m and may be partially artificial although it is not certainly a crannog. No further information could be found locally.
Revised at 1:10560 scale.
Visited by OS (RD) 18 November 1970
