Langamull

Old Cottage near Langamull Farm, NW Mull.

The cottage, built of mortared stone, situated west of the modern farm is sheltered by a steep hill from the prevailing westerly winds. The walls, of mortared stone, are 2’8” thick. The cottage was 22’4” long by 12’ wide. It was entered by a door 5’8” x 2’6” near the N (E) end of the S (E) long side and lighted by a small window in the same side. The walls were 6’3” high all round there being no gable. On the top of the stone work was a laid a single course of sods on which the lower ends of the rafters rested. These were fastened together near the upper ends by wooden pegs. The V formed by their projections beyond this point supports the rooftree. Three horizontal beams merely resting in notches in the rafters completed the frame for the sides. That for the ends was constructed in the same manner; for the gable and rooftree are only about 9’ long. The central rafters rest on the middle of the end walls and the ends of the rooftree having precisely the same pitch as the side rafters shown in the elevation, but there are only two horizontals at each end. This frame supports a loose lather of whithies (not interlaced) upon which sods rest. The cottage was still inhabited less than 20 years ago. The sods are still in place at the (N) E end but have fallen away from the S (W) end from which the photograph was taken.

Visited by RCAHMS 2 August 1943.

The cottage described by RCAHMS 1943 is almost the roofless ruin located 215m WSW of Langamull Farm at NM 3854 5324.

Information from RCAHMS (GFG) 7 January 1943