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Ballimore
Building (19th Century), Enclosure (19th Century), Lairds House (18th Century), Pen (19th Century)
Site Name Ballimore
Classification Building (19th Century), Enclosure (19th Century), Lairds House (18th Century), Pen (19th Century)
Canmore ID 84592
Site Number NN02NE 3
NGR NN 05313 25841
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/84592
- Council Argyll And Bute
- Parish Glenorchy And Inishail (Argyll And Bute)
- Former Region Strathclyde
- Former District Argyll And Bute
- Former County Argyll
NN02NE 3 0531 2584
Ballimore: a possible small 18th century country house, three storeys high with W gable intact (NGR incorrectly given as NN 0525 2572).
Visited by OS (RL) 11 April 1962
A farmstead, comprising a sub-rectangular enclosure with a roofless building along its N side, is depicted on the 1st edition of the OS 6-inch map (Argyllshire 1875, sheet c) to the N of Ballimore House (NN02NE 4). A second roofless building is situated to the W of the enclosure and a smaller enclosure lies to the E. A head-dyke runs round this site and the township to the W (NN02NE 5).
Information from RCAHMS (PM) 20 June 1995 and (SAH) 19 July 2001
Field Visit (4 July 1996)
The remains of this eighteenth-century laird's house stand at the N edge of a rectangular enclosure immediately to the NE of Ballimore farmsteading. The WNW gable is almost intact but there are only fragmentary remains of the rest of the building; enough survives, however, to show that it measured 12.5m by 6.5m within walls 0.75m in thickness. A fireplace is visible at ground floor level in the standing gable, and the levels of the first and attic floors can also be seen, the latter marked by a scarcement.
The house is probably the substantial building depicted at 'Ballymore' on Stephen McDougall's 1748 map of Auchnacrive and Barbreck (National Archives of Scotland, RHP 962/1), and it is also shown on Langlands' 1801 map of Argyllshire (National Library of Scotland, EMS.s.326). The first edition of the OS 6-inch map (Argyllshire 1875, sheet c) depicts the building roofless, and also shows the rectangular enclosure to the S. A small pen that stands at the SW corner of the enclosure is also depicted on the 1st edition map.
(LORN96 253)
Visited by RCAHMS (SDB) 4 July 1996
