Drumgarve
Byre Dwelling(S) (Medieval) - (Post Medieval), Cruck Framed Building(S) (Medieval) - (Post Medieval), Township (Medieval) - (Post Medieval)
Site Name Drumgarve
Classification Byre Dwelling(S) (Medieval) - (Post Medieval), Cruck Framed Building(S) (Medieval) - (Post Medieval), Township (Medieval) - (Post Medieval)
Canmore ID 38776
Site Number NR72NW 23
NGR NR 7232 2664
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/38776
- Council Argyll And Bute
- Parish Campbeltown
- Former Region Strathclyde
- Former District Argyll And Bute
- Former County Argyll
Field Visit (July 1965)
NR72NW 23 723 266.
Township, Drumgarve.
The remains of this township stand on the banks of the Glenlussa Water about 800 m SW. of the farmhouse of Drumgarve and 1.5 km N. of that of Callyburn. The main group of buildings, comprising three byre-dwellings and one two-roomed building with an outshot, stands on the N. bank of the burn, while a combined mill and miller's dwelling, and another byre-dwelling, stand a little lower down on the opposite bank [see NR72NW 28]. Some of the buildings are of stone-and-lime construction while others have been bonded in clay mortar; all are now ruinous, and in some cases the walls are reduced to their footings. Those buildings that retain reasonably well-preserved sections of walling show evidence of upper-cruck construction, the bases of the cruck-slots occurring at points about 0.9 m above floor level.
The best preserved of the byre-dwellings, which stands among the main group of buildings on the N. side of the burn, measures 31.7 m from N. to S. by 5.8 m transversely over walls some 0·6 m in thickness. It comprises three apartments, a byre occupying the southernmost, or lower, end of the building, and a room and kitchen the upper end. The main entrance-doorway is situated in the W. wall immediately to the E. of a partition that separates the kitchen from the byre. A second partition, containing a stone-built fireplace, divides the kitchen from the inner room, which has been provided with a gable fireplace. The byre has a separate centrally-placed entrance doorway in the W. wall. A drain pierces the centre of the S. gable, at either end of which two small mural recesses are formed at a high level.
The other byre-dwellings were probably similar in arrangement to that described above.
Immediately to the N. of the main group of buildings there may be seen traces of enclosed fields showing evidence of rig-cultivation. The remains of several limekilns can also be observed in the vicinity.
RCAHMS 1971, visited July 1965
Note
A township, comprising four unroofed buildings is depicted on the 1st edition of the OS 6-inch map (Argyllshire 1869, sheet ccli). Four unroofed buildings, each of two compartments are shown on the current edition of the OS 1:10000 map (1981).
Information from RCAHMS (AKK) 22 October 1998
