Monument record MHG21346 - Aultbea

Thumbnail Photo of township building and enclosure
Wester Ross Project - Cathy Dagg, 03/04

The present village of Aultbea is centred on the street along the north of the bay, with modern housing on Aird and along the south side of the Allt Beithe to the A835. New development is concentrated along the A835 and Drumchork.

The placename Aultbea now encompasses the former townships of Aultbea, Badfearn, Tighnafaoilinn and Cuilconich. The original township of Aultbea was possibly on the hill slope north of the Allt Beithe where a number of cruck-grooved farmstead buildings, aligned down the slope, survive as substantial ruins, together with enclosures and sections of irregular dykes. The First Edition OS map records a corn mill on the Allt Beithe, but this no longer survives. One possible section of lade was identified.
Wester Ross Project - Cathy Dagg, 23/3/04
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NG88NE 18 centred on 876 890

A crofting township comprising twenty-five roofed buildings, including an Inn, a School and a Corn Mill, one partially roofed and eleven unroofed buildings, several enclosures and fragments of a head-dyke is depicted on the 1st edition of the OS 6-inch map (Ross-shire 1881, sheet xix). Fifty-two roofed, two partially roofed, nine unroofed buildings and several enclosures are shown on the current edition of the OS 1:10560 map (1968).
Information from RCAHMS (SAH) 23 April 1996