Monument record MHG29021 - Dail an Tullaich

Situated on the S of the River Calder, this township comprises fifteen buildings in three clusters, three enclosures, a corn-drying kiln, an area of rig and a head-dyke. The clusters of buildings are distributed around the fringes of a haugh on which there are the traces of rig.
The buildings range in size from 7.3m to 11.5m in length by between 1.8m and 4.2m in breadth within what are for the most part faced-rubble walls between 0.7m and 0.9m in thickness and up to 0.4m in height. However, two (KING95 156, 162) are earthen walled and three are constructed of turf and stone (KING95 154, 165-166). A partition is visible in one (KING95 155) and another has a porch (KING95 164). The corn-drying kiln (KING95 160), the N side of which has been washed away by the river, is situated on the leading edge of the river-terrace on the S; its bowl measures 1.8m in diameter within faced-rubble walls 1.1m in thickness, while the barn extends 3.7m to the SSE onto the terrace.
The township is depicted on the Duke of Gordon?s estate map of 1771 (SRO RHP 1835), comprising three buildings at the SW side of the haugh and five buildings and an enclosure at the river edge on the N. Four unroofed buildings, two on the E (KING95 155 & 156) and two on the W (KING95 161 and 163), an enclosure and a head-dyke are depicted on the 1st edition OS 6-inch map (Inverness-shire 1872, Sheet ci).
(KING95 143, 151-166)
Visited by RCAHMS (PJD) 8 September 1995