FREE Business and Traditional Building Skills Training

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The Real Wild West- Adopt-a-Monument: Ardnamurchan programme is offering fully-funded training to residents, businesses and organisations in West Ardnamurchan. The courses are listed below. Business / employability training IOSH Working Safely (Course description here.) Date: Thursday 4th May Emergency First Aid at … Continued

Camas nan Geall – Excavation update 2022

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The sites have been backfilled, the finds logged and recorded, the trowels and buckets cleaned, and the stunning and atmospheric Camas nan Geall has been left as it was found, just before we all started on our archaeological adventure in … Continued

Merry Christmas to all of you!

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Thank you for your continued support, and special thanks to all of our fantastic volunteers. We look forward to working with you next year! Take a look at a wee video that covers some of the work achieved this year.

Volunteers of Adopt-a-Monument, Ardnamurchan

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Although the Adopt-a-Monument project is led by some very experienced archaeologists, one resource we really couldn’t do without is our committed and hard-working volunteers, who give their time and energy to the project, and we are immensely grateful for it. … Continued

Camas nan Geall 2021 activity begins!

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The archaeological activity at Camas nan Geall has got off to a fabulous start with lots of keen volunteers turning up to help out with this fascinating and important work. The general plan is to do a quick landscape characterisation … Continued

Excavations at Camas nan Geall 2021

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Join us in investigating the historic landscape of Camas nan Geall. As part of the Adopt-A-Monument Ardnamurchan project, between the 2nd and 12th (NB: no activity on 7th) of September we will be carrying out archaeological excavations around Camas nan … Continued

Adopt-a-Monument Project Launch

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Come along to the Icehouse at Fascadale on either Saturday 1st or Sunday 2nd May 2021, at 2.30pm to find out all about the project’s plans and how you can get involved. This exciting funded history and heritage project (Archaeology … Continued

Adopt-a-Monument Project begins

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We’re very excited to announce that, after several months of unavoidable delay, the Adopt-a-Monument Project will officially begin on 1st April! The Project, part of a new £9 million Scottish programme of projects to invest in the Highlands and Islands … Continued

Adopt-a-Monument on Ardnamurchan (2021 & 2022)

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The Adopt-a-Monument on Ardnamurchan project is part of a new £9 million Scottish programme of projects to invest in the Highlands and Islands to provide more and better-quality opportunities for visitors to enjoy natural and cultural heritage assets. Funded by … Continued

AHHA AGM

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Ardnamurchan History and Heritage Association are holding their Annual General Meeting on Saturday 20th July 5.30pm at Kilchoan Learning Centre. The meeting is open to anyone and everyone with an interest, even a mild one, in the rich heritage of … Continued

MacIain Descendant Visits

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AHHA was very pleased to welcome to the village Nancy McKean Conner and her husband Bob, who live in Wauchula, Florida. Nancy is a descendant of the McKeans who sailed across to the New World from Ireland, but her researches have led her … Continued

Lochan na Crannaig

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Lochan na Crannaig lies to the right of the road between Kilchoan and Achosnich, about half way to Sonachan Hotel. To learn more about it, see the Kilchoan Diary entry here.

West of Bourblaige

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Members of AHHA spent Saturday morning high on the steep slopes to the west of Bourblaige, a settlement cleared by the Ardnamurchan Estate in 1828 – some of its ruined houses are just visible at bottom right of this picture. … Continued

Graveyard Survey Completed

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Members of Ardnamurchan History & Heritage Association spent some time in beautiful weather this morning at St Comghan’s church completing our survey of the gravestones. The basic details of each gravestone will in due course be printed as part of a … Continued

Allt Sordail Dun

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Last weekend, members of AHHA walked to the south of Swordle, into the forestry, to visit the Allt Sordail dun, a dun being a fortified site. There are several duns on Ardnamurchan, but this one is unusual in being away … Continued

The Murrays & Riddells

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The process of populating this site continues with an account of two of the families who held the Ardnamurchan Estate through the 18th and 19th centuries, the Murrays and Riddells – link here. We are particularly pleased in the section on … Continued

The Swordlechorach Clearance

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Portuairk, one of the crofting townships on Ardnamurchan’s northwest coast, is a beautiful and tranquil place today, but it was the scene of some misery when it was first settled, around 1853. People from the township of Swordlechorach were forcibly … Continued

A Hidden Distillery

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These days, distilleries are big business, not only for the distilling of whisky but also as visitor centres – witness our new Ardnamurchan Distillery at Glenbeg – link here. However, at the end of the 18th and beginning of the … Continued

Wall Repair Completed

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  The work on the eastern wall of the graveyard at St Comghan’s was completed on Saturday when a group from Ardnamurchan History & Heritage Association removed the old, rusty wire ‘scarer’ and replaced it with new. At the same … Continued

Repairs at Cladh Chiarain

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Cladh Chiarain, the walled graveyard at Camas nan Geall, one of the scheduled monuments which AHHA has adopted, contains at least six headstones, the finest of which are these two. Both have a date on the back, 1737, and the … Continued