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Gigha, Cail Nan Ciomach
Prison (19th Century) - (20th Century)
Site Name Gigha, Cail Nan Ciomach
Classification Prison (19th Century) - (20th Century)
Alternative Name(s) Creag Bhan
Canmore ID 38631
Site Number NR65SW 7
NGR NR 6495 5075
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/38631
- Council Argyll And Bute
- Parish Gigha And Cara
- Former Region Strathclyde
- Former District Argyll And Bute
- Former County Argyll
NR65SW 7 6495 5075
(NR 6495 5075) A long building, 47 feet by 19 feet, with walls 2ft 9ins thick. It was used as a prison in the 1560's and in known as Cail nan Ciomach.
Information from R E MacCallum to OS, 1962; R S G Anderson 1939.
This building remains as overgrown footings measuring internally 23.0m long, NE-SW, by 4.0m broad; about 6.0m in from the SW end is a division. Large stone blocks are evident in what survives of the wall but it is indistinguishable from other long houses in Kintyre and Gigha.
Surveyed at 1:10 000.
Visited by OS (J M) 20 January 1978.
The house lies 170m N of the road between Ardailly and Druimyeonbeg Farms and lies on the E facing slopes of Creag Bhan, the highest point on Gigha. The house is rectangular and measures 17m by 5m. At the S end is a small annex 5m by 5m. On the W side is a wall some 5m from the house which forms an enclosure to the W and S. Originally this wall may have continued on completely surrounding the house but the area to the S and E has been greatly disturbed and it is not possible to confirm this. Local sources refer to the house as 'the Prison'.
F Hood [et al.] 1993, visited April 1993.
NMRS, MS/805/1.
A single unroofed long building is depicted on the 1st edition of the OS 6-inch map (Argyllshire 1873, sheet ccxxii) and on the current edition of the OS 1:10000 map (1981).
Information from RCAHMS (AKK), 22 October 1998.
