Crieff To Dalnacardoch Military Road
Military Road (18th Century)
Site Name Crieff To Dalnacardoch Military Road
Classification Military Road (18th Century)
Alternative Name(s) Meall Dearg
Canmore ID 86368
Site Number NN84SE 8
NGR NN 8956 4300
NGR Description NN 8999 4213 to NN 8864 4499
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/86368
- Council Perth And Kinross
- Parish Little Dunkeld
- Former Region Tayside
- Former District Perth And Kinross
- Former County Perthshire
NN84SE 8.00 From 8999 4213 to 8864 4499 MR 3 (formerly LIN 501)
General Wade's Military Road (NAT)
OS 1:10000 map (1991)
NN84SE 8.01 8981 4254 Glen Cochill Ford.
NN84SE 8.02 8971 4276 Glen Cochill Culvert.
NN84SE 8.03 8914 4360 Glen Cochill Bridge A.
NN84SE 8.04 8913 4363 Glen Cochill Bridge B.
NN84SE 8.05 8912 4364 Glen Cochill Bridge C.
The military road heads NW on a track which is sometimes marshy.
J B Salmond 1938.
NN 8864 4499 - 8989 4229 modern estate track overlies military road.
NN 8989 4229 - 8970 4276 disused heather-covered track 3.5m wide.
NN 8981 4254 ford (NN84SE 8.01).
NN 8971 4276 pronounced kink at old culvert (NN84SE 8.02).
NN 8970 4276 - 8934 4331 terraced hollow-way 4.2m wide. Intermittent ditch uphill side. Upcast bank downhill side in places.
NN 8934 4331 - 8912 4364 waterlogged track 4.5m wide. Traces of upcast bank, either side.
NN 8914 4360 4.7m wide bridge (NN84SE 8.03). No parapets. Single arch 3.9m span, 1m clearance.
NN 8913 4363 partially collapsed bridge (NN84SE 8.04) over dried-up stream, similar to adjacent bridge.
NN 8912 4364 site of bridge (NN84SE 8.05).
NN 8912 4364 - 8979 4411 road mound 5.5m to 7m wide across flat boggy ground. Ditches or streams either side.
NN 8979 4411 - 8878 4456 pronounced hollow-way 3.5m wide with upcast banks either side, zig-zagging up slope to modern road.
NN 8878 4456 - 8877 4469 modern road on course.
NN 8877 4469 - 8870 4490 slight hollow-way c.4m wide.
NN 8870 4490 - 8864 4499 mutilated terrace alongside modern road.
Visited by OS (WDJ) November 1970
The military road heads NW on an often marshy track which runs along the foot of the Meall Dearg. The road has been erected on a causeway between NN 892 435 and NN 888 441, but today a burn runs along this and within the space of less than one hundred yards there are three bridges (NN84SE 8.03, NN84SE 8.04 and NN84SE 8.05) at NN 8914 4360, NN 8913 4363 and NN 8912 4364. Although two are still in good condition, the third, which spans the Cochill, is ruined. A little further N the military line bends sharply to the E and continues heading almost directly N until it links with the modern road at NN 888 445.
W Taylor 1976.
