Monument record MHG35111 - AN FHAODHAILIN

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User: Admin, Date: Wed 13 Oct 2004
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NM55NE 11 5920 5784

A farmstead comprising one unroofed building lying outside a head-dyke is depicted on the 1st edition of the OS 6-inch map (Argyllshire 1875, sheet xxxix) and on the current edition of the OS 1:10000 map (1974).
Information from RCAHMS (SAH) 18 May 1998

This farmstead, comprising one roofless building set outside an enclosure at the mouth of the Abhainn Poll Luachrain, was noted during a pre-afforestation survey of the NE part of the Drimnin Estate. The building, which has been levelled into the hillside and has a drain around its W side and S end, measures 8.8m from N to S by 5.1m overall. A secondary structure, measuring 4.3m, occupying the S end, has an entrance in its N wall and a splayed window in its E wall. Three cruck-slots are visible, two in the W wall (of which at least one is associated with the earlier phase) and one, centrally-placed in the S end . An enclosure lies, isolated, on the hillside to the N.
The building is situated above, and outwith, a large enclosure, measuring 220m from E to W by 200m. The enclosure is defined by a well-built battered drystone rubble wall tapering from 0.6m at the base to 0.4m in width. The wall is about 1.5m in height with turf coping surviving along much of its length. It encloses an area of ground known as An Fhaodhailin or Sea-margin field (ONB 1875). The area to the W of the burn is mostly wooded whilst that to the E includes a large area of level grassland, corresponding to an area of arable ground depicted on 'A plan of the Estate of Drimnin The property of Sir Charles Gordon 1836' by D Wilson (SRO, RHP 3258).
Within the enclosure, there are traces of a smaller enclosure, measuring 78m from E to W by 65m, defined on the N by a broad curving grass-covered turf and stone bank and on the E by a steep escarpment. A small structure, depicted on the Wilson map (1836), abuts the N wall to the E of a gateway. It measures 7m by 6m over an overgrown, 0.5m wide and 0.3m high wall. There are further short stretches of wall adjacent to the burn and mostly within the smaller enclosure.
J G Robertson December 1997; NMRS MS 1012/1, nos.33-38