South Cuil
Building Platform (Period Unassigned), Farmhouse (Period Unassigned)
Site Name South Cuil
Classification Building Platform (Period Unassigned), Farmhouse (Period Unassigned)
Alternative Name(s) South Cuil 2
Canmore ID 308820
Site Number NM95NE 9.04
NGR NM 9833 5508
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/308820
- Council Highland
- Parish Lismore And Appin (Lochaber)
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Lochaber
- Former County Argyll
Field Visit (1 August 2008 - 1 October 2008)
Walking around and within sites: Measured.
Reference (1 August 2008 - 1 October 2008)
Old photographs and Ordnance Survey maps.
Srp Note (7 February 2011)
This farmhouse was built between 1871 (1st edition of the OS 6-inch map (Argyllshire and Buteshire 1871, sheet xliii)) and 1883 (Erskine Bevridge photograph) [see 3 South Cuil]. It had become ruinous by the end of the Second World War but cartographic and photographic evidence shows that it was a T-shaped building with the dwelling quarters at the front and the leg of the T being for agricultural purposes. It was single storied with a couple of skylights suggesting an attic. It had three gables two being chimneyed. The roof of the leg of the T is at a lower level than the rest of the building. Unlike the other holdings on South Cuil this one was a croft, the other three being small-holdings -a big difference legally.
Adjacent to this there are the footings of another building. (NM9840/5511) Looking at 1st and 2nd Ordnance Survey maps this was probably present before the changes that occurred between 1871 and 1883. It can just be made out in the background a photograph by Erskine Beveridge taken on 14th July 1883. [see Possible Fish Trap].
What was left of it was severely damaged when a modern barn was erected and only a few stones can now be identified
