Eilean Mor
Corn Drying Kiln (Medieval) - (18th Century), Farmstead (Medieval) - (18th Century)
Site Name Eilean Mor
Classification Corn Drying Kiln (Medieval) - (18th Century), Farmstead (Medieval) - (18th Century)
Canmore ID 98842
Site Number NR67NE 17
NGR NR 6668 7530
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/98842
- Council Argyll And Bute
- Parish South Knapdale
- Former Region Strathclyde
- Former District Argyll And Bute
- Former County Argyll
NR67NE 17 666 753
A ruined building (locally called a 'nunnery') and traces of others, including a possible beehive cell, N of the chapel on Eilean Mor (NR67NE 1). Another circular foundation lies NE of and near to the chapel.
Sources: M E M Donaldson 1930; M Campbell and M Sandeman 1964
NR 666 753. A depopulated settlement comprising three rectangular buildings and a corn-drying kiln. Several clearance heaps nearby.
Visited by OS (DWR) 16 May 1973
Field Visit (August 1984)
Some 30m ENE of the chapel is a turf-grown corn-drying kiln about 1.6m in internal diameter and having remains of a flue to the SE. A few metres to the NW there are the footings of a rectangular building 9.5m by 5.5m overall, with an entrance in the NE side-wall. Both of these structures probably belong to the last phase of the permanent occupation of the island, in the 18th century, but a larger building 30m S of the chapel may be of earlier date. It is represented mainly by large orthostat slabs, and measured about 13m by 6.5m over all, with a smaller annexe attched to the NE end-wall.
RCAHMS 1992, visited August 1984
