Monument record MHG33162 - Port a' Bhata

Dr SE Evans (correspondence 11/2004) notes that among the Robertson MacDonald Papers is a document dated 1800 that contains proposals for improvements to the Kinlochmoidart Estate (National Library of Scotland, MS 3983.f145.). One of the suggested improvements was to build a new mill on the former mill site on the north shore of Loch Moidart. The document states that on the opposite side of the loch, on Clanranald property, there stood a 'sleat' mill that had become derelict 'for want of water'. The outer work was 'gone' but the inner work was 'perfect' and it was proposed that an attempt should be made to obtain the machinery for the new Kinlochmoidart mill. There is now no trace of any iron machinery in or near the Port a' Bhata mill.
(KC 12/2004)

The mill is situated on a flat marshy area on the south shore of Loch Moidart on Allt a' Mhuilinn.
Information supplied by Dr SE Evans, 04/2004
See Report 1240, Site 24

J Aitken : 28/4/04
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A considerable mill lade remains and one of the mill stones is still in the mill. Muileann Dubh was abandoned when the local villages were cleared in 1852. The machinery was moved to the Mill House on the other side of the loch. J Dye, Acharacle, info passed on by G Clark, Treslaig (ref 10).
AMF, Highland Council, 08/03/01


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An unroofed building attached to a length of wall is depicted on the 1st edition of the OS 6-inch map (Inverness-shire 1876, sheet cxlviii) and on the current edition of the OS 1:10000 map (1974).
Information from RCAHMS (SAH) 22 August 1996