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MHG4539 - Township - Dail an Tullaich

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Township (KING95 142-3, 151-166)
NN69NE 5.02 6731 9882 Township (KING95 145-150)

At NN 672 986 On the flood plain on either side of the River Calder at Dail an Tullaich there are the remains of a township, depopulated circa 1850 (Information from Captain J H Macpherson, Dunmore, Newtonmore, Inverness-shire). It consists of about fourteen buildings, five small enclosures, one large enclosure, a well-preserved corn drying kiln and possibly the amorphous remains of another. The buildings average 8.0m x 4.0m, although one measures 17.0m x 5.0m. They are generally visible as grass covered footings about 0.4m high. On the north of the river a relatively modern sheep fank has been constructed from the remains of earlier buildings. No name could be found for this township.
Visited by OS (R D) 22 September 1965.

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

Access Audit 88 - See Assoc. Docs. File
J Aitken : 15/3/04

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Grid reference	Centred NN 6723 9856 (683m by 280m) (2 map features)
Map sheet	NN69NE
Civil Parish	KINGUSSIE AND INSH
Geographical Area	BADENOCH AND STRATHSPEY

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