Monument record MHG36024 - CALEDONIAN CANAL, INVEROICH PIER, FORT AUGUSTUS

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User: Admin, Date: Wed 13 Oct 2004
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NH30NE 49 3824 0935.

The Loch Ness mail steamers used to use this pier, which is situated on the N side of the canal as it flows into Loch Ness, as this obviated the necessity of negotiating the locks or having to attempt the impossible task of reversing down the channel.
G Hutton 1992.

This pier, situated on the N side of the canal as it enters Loch Ness, is visible on the 1st edition of the OS 6-inch map (Inverness-shire 1874, sheet lxviii), is marked as a pier on the 2nd edition of the OS 6-inch map (Inverness-shire 1904, sheet lxviii) and marked as a landing-stage on the current edition of the OS 1:10000 map (1971) and on the OS Basic Scale raster map (ND).
Information from RCAHMS (MD) 20 September 2001.