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MHG32698 - Boathouse, Drimnin

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The boathouse is built of snecked rubble, incorporating broken pieces of roofing slate. The walls are substantially intact, though unroofed. The entrance has a high round arch of slabbed voussoirs, and there is a blocked window or entrance in the upper part of the rear gable wall.

Standing at the head of a creek, the boathouse is sheltered by a large rocky outcrop. On the landward side of the creek are the remains of a simple quay constructed of boulders, allowing dry-shod landing at most states of tide. A track, marked on old maps but now seriously overgrown at its seaward end, led from the boathouse and its associated landing places up to Drimnin House.

Close to the boathouse is a cottage of vernacular build (also surveyed). It has low walls with rounded corners, and two windows. Four cruck-slots survive, and a central wall incorporating a fireplace appears to be a later addition. A doorway on the west side has been blocked. Outside this is a small walled enclosure, apparently never roofed. Within the rubble fill of its walls were found objects of probable late 19th-century date.
Information supplied by Sound of Mull Survey - P Martin.

(KC 12/03)

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Grid reference	Centred NM 5470 5480 (20m by 20m) (2 map features)
Map sheet	NM55SW
Civil Parish	MORVERN
Geographical Area	LOCHABER

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