Killellan Farm South, Horse-gin
Horse Engine House (19th Century) - (20th Century)
Site Name Killellan Farm South, Horse-gin
Classification Horse Engine House (19th Century) - (20th Century)
Alternative Name(s) Kintyre; Killellan House Policies
Canmore ID 38349
Site Number NR61SE 10.01
NGR NR 6850 1486
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/38349
- Council Argyll And Bute
- Parish Campbeltown
- Former Region Strathclyde
- Former District Argyll And Bute
- Former County Argyll
NR61SE 10.01 6850 1486
This horse-gang, which was formerly used to drive a threshing-machine in an adjacent barn, is no longer in use, but remains in a fairly good state of preservation. The apparatus comprises a horizontal iron gear-wheel mounted at ground level at the centre of a circular stone platform, or horse-path, some 9m in diameter. To the gear-wheel there is bolted a horizontal iron bar, which is angled forward at its outer extremity to facilitate harnessing. The driving-shaft could not be located at the date of visit, but it presumably runs immediately beneath the surface of the horse-path. The apparatus appears to have stood open to the weather.
RCAHMS 1971, visited August 1965.
(Location cited as NR 685 148). Horse-gin, South Killellan Form, 19th century. A well preserved example of a single-horse open gin, on a raised platform surrounded by a rubble retaining wall on three sides. The wrought- and cast-iron wheel iws sunk into a brick-lined pit, with [an] underground drive to the barn.
J R Hume 1977.
The iron pivot and central gear-wheel are still in place.
Visited by OS October 1977.
