Blackwater Dam, Navvies' Graveyard
Burial Ground (Period Unassigned)
Site Name Blackwater Dam, Navvies' Graveyard
Classification Burial Ground (Period Unassigned)
Alternative Name(s) Allt An Eoin Bhinn; Blackwater Reservoir, Dam, Construction Graveyard; Kinlochleven Aluminium Works
Canmore ID 79902
Site Number NN26SW 4
NGR NN 24213 60253
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/79902
- Council Highland
- Parish Lismore And Appin (Lochaber)
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Lochaber
- Former County Argyll
NN26SW 4 24213 60253
Grave Yard [NAT] (applied to a circular area. c. 20m diameter, some 170m SSW of where Allt an Eoin Bhinn joins the River Leven).
OS 6-inch map, 1968.
Location formerly entered as NN 2427 6025.
For (associated) Blackwater Reservoir (NN 30500 60200) and dam (NN 24790 60371), see NN36SW 2 and NN26SW 3.00 respectively.
This graveyard contains the concrete grave-markers of men killed while working on the dam [NN26SW 3.00] construction in 1908.
Information RCAHMS (MMD), 18 June 1997.
Grave Yard [NAT] (applied to open rectangle at NN 24213 60253)
OS (GIS) AIB, June 2006.