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Drumbuie
Bothy (Period Unassigned), Pen (Period Unassigned), Sheep Dip (Period Unassigned), Sheepfold (Period Unassigned)
Site Name Drumbuie
Classification Bothy (Period Unassigned), Pen (Period Unassigned), Sheep Dip (Period Unassigned), Sheepfold (Period Unassigned)
Alternative Name(s) Balmacara Estate
Canmore ID 87827
Site Number NG73SE 10.01
NGR NG 7777 3094
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/87827
- Council Highland
- Parish Lochalsh
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Skye And Lochalsh
- Former County Ross And Cromarty
NG73SE 10.01 7777 3094.
(previously NG73SE 10)
A roofed building is depicted on the 1st edition of the OS 6-inch map (Ross-shire 1880, sheet cxvi), but it is not shown on the current edition of the OS 1:10000 map (1973).
Information from RCAHMS (SAH) 3 May 1996
Field Visit (6 June 1994)
Pen and bothy: recorded in June 1994 during a comprehensive survey of Balmacara NTS estate. Full details are lodged with Dualchas, Skye and Lochalsh Museums Service.
Dualchas 1994a.
Dualchas Survey
Field Visit (May 1994)
A semi-ruined rectangular sheep fank with the south end cut deeply into the hillside where the walls stand to 2m. A galvanised iron dipping tank lies in the centre of the north end where the fank walls survive as foundations only.
Lying by the west side of the fank is a ruinous rectangular structure - possibly the shepherd's bothy.
(BAL94-73-01)
Information from NTS (SCS) January 2016
Condition Survey (1998 - 1998)
Around 200m east of the township of Drumbuie, sited immediately south of the road in a slight 'U'shaped area through which a burn once flowed, is a series of ?19th century structures that seem to be more complex than suggested but the Dualchas description
NTS Ref: BAL 001 (Information from condition report for NTS produced by Jill Harden 2000)
NTS commissioned condition report as follow-up to Dualchas survey, undertaken by Jill Harden
