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Bute, Big Cut
Aqueduct(S) (19th Century), Bridge(S) (19th Century), Dam(S) (19th Century), Sluice(S) (19th Century), Water Channel(S) (Period Unassigned)
Site Name Bute, Big Cut
Classification Aqueduct(S) (19th Century), Bridge(S) (19th Century), Dam(S) (19th Century), Sluice(S) (19th Century), Water Channel(S) (Period Unassigned)
Alternative Name(s) Robert Thom's Water Cuts; Drumreoch-barnauld Cut
Canmore ID 304593
Site Number NS06SE 430
NGR NS 0979 6178
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/304593
- Council Argyll And Bute
- Parish Kingarth
- Former Region Strathclyde
- Former District Argyll And Bute
- Former County Buteshire
NS06SE 430 Mid-point 0979 6178.
The Big Cut was the longest of Robert Thom’s water cuts, constructed in the early 19th century to supplement the supply for the Rothesay Cotton Mill (NS06SE 5). It began to the SE of Birgidale Butt (78629), at NS 0868 5856 where it captured a series of field drains before heading along the NW side of the Tor Wood in a natural channel. Further sections of artificial channel, including an aqueduct, carried the cut past Scoulag and Kerrycroy farmsteads, skirting the S end of Loch Ascog till it joined the Barnauld Burn at Kerrycrusoch, emptying into Loch Fad at NS 0747 6083, 2.6km NW of the start point. Sections of cut, annotated ‘Cotton Mill Aqueduct’ in places, are depicted in the 1st edition of the OS map (Buteshire 1869, Sheet CCIV and CCXV). Six sluices and nineteen bridges were associated with this cut (Maclagan 1996, 12-15). At least two dams supplemented the supply from the natural stream at Kerrycroy, one named Dixon’s Dam (NS06SE 428), and another at NS 1061 6129, both depicted on the 1st edition map. A pond, now dried up, at NS 0952 6103, may have supplemented the Kerrycroy Burn.
Information from RCAHMS (GFG) 18 May 2010.
Desk Based Assessment (18 May 2010)
The Big Cut was the longest of Robert Thom’s water cuts, constructed in the early 19th century to supplement the supply for the Rothesay Cotton Mill (NS06SE 5). It began to the SE of Birgidale Butt (78629), at NS 0868 5856 where it captured a series of field drains before heading along the NW side of the Tor Wood in a natural channel. Further sections of artificial channel, including an aqueduct, carried the cut past Scoulag and Kerrycroy farmsteads, skirting the S end of Loch Ascog till it joined the Barnauld Burn at Kerrycrusoch, emptying into Loch Fad at NS 0747 6083, 2.6km NW of the start point. Sections of cut, annotated ‘Cotton Mill Aqueduct’ in places, are depicted in the 1st edition of the OS map (Buteshire 1869, Sheet CCIV and CCXV). Six sluices and nineteen bridges were associated with this cut (Maclagan 1996, 12-15). At least two dams supplemented the supply from the natural stream at Kerrycroy, one named Dixon’s Dam (NS06SE 428), and another at NS 1006 6129, both depicted on the 1st edition map. A pond, now dried up, at NS 0952 6103, may have supplemented the Kerrycroy Burn.
Information from RCAHMS (GFG) 18 May 2010.
