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'Lonyle'. Loch Tarsan
Farmstead (Period Unassigned)
Site Name 'Lonyle'. Loch Tarsan
Classification Farmstead (Period Unassigned)
Canmore ID 40520
Site Number NS08SE 5
NGR NS 0755 8481
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/40520
- Council Argyll And Bute
- Parish Inverchaolain
- Former Region Strathclyde
- Former District Argyll And Bute
- Former County Argyll
NS08SE 5 c.0755 8481.
Submerged in Loch Tarsan, a hydro-electric reservoir.
J M Bennett 1985.
A farmstead, comprising one unroofed building and one enclosure is depicted on the 1st edition of the OS 6-inch map (Argyllshire 1869, sheet clxxiii, but it is not shown on the current edition of the OS 1:10000 map (1979).
Information from RCAHMS (AKK) 29 September 1998.
Measured Survey (2010)
NS 07557 84808 The lowering of the water level in Loch Tarsan to permit maintenance work afforded a rare opportunity to investigate settlements partially flooded by the creation of the hydroelectric reservoir. In the following description dimensions are external except where otherwise noted.
On the W side of Loch Tarsan, on the N bank of the Lonyle Burn at NS 07557 84808, is a dry stone house and yard. The house was already indicated as a ruin when surveyed by the OS in 1865. Uphill to the W of it is a large enclosure bounded by a dry stone wall, turfed over in part. The house is rectangular, with long axis E–W parallel to the burn, and has an attached yard on the N side. The house appears to have suffered a collapse, possibly as a result of being submerged when the glen was flooded; the foundations remain, obscured by the large mass of tumbled stones.
The main part of the house appears to have been a two-compartment structure of overall length c12m E–W and
width 5.8m N–S. The W compartment is 4m long. A third compartment on the W side 7.6m long shares a common S wall but is wider, 6m. The wall structure is double, of overall width 0.6m. There is an entrance in the S wall of the middle chamber. Adjacent to the NE corner of the house is a low rectangular foundation, 5m square, also with double walls. A large yard bounded by a curved wall 12m N–S by 16m E–W is attached on the N side of the house.
About 10m uphill to the W is the large enclosure running uphill, bounded by a dry stone wall of E–W length 23m,
covered in part by turf. It is 16.5m wide at the W end, narrowing to 9m at the E end.
David Dorren and Nina Henry
