- County
- Argyll
- Postcode
- PA437JF
- Lands, farms or estate name
- LAGGAN & DUICH FARMS & LAND AT GLENEGEDALE
- Subjects
- THE LAND LIES IN THE PARISH OF KILAROW AND KILMENY FOR LAGGAN FARM WITH DUICH FARM AND LAND AT GLENEGEDALE LYING IN THE PARISH OF KILDALTON AND THE OA WITH THE RIVER DUICH FORMING THE BOUNDARY BETWEEN THEM. THE SOUTHERN MARCH, FOR DUICH AND GLENEGEDALE LIES ON RIVER MACHRIE, THE WESTERN LIES ALONG LAGGAN BAY ROUNDING LAGGAN POINT, WITH ITS TRIG. MARKER, INTO LOCH INDAAL TO A WALL MARKING THE DIVISION WITH ISLAY ESTATES PROPERTIES STARTING AT GARTBRECK. THIS THEN RUNS EASTWARD TO LOCH GRUNARD'S WESTERN TIP AND ALONG ITS SOUTHERN EDGE RUNNING ON TO A SERIES OF LOCHANS ON LAGGAN MOSS THEN TURN EAST FOR 700 M. TO MEETING THE NORTH EAST TIP OF THE FIRST ARABLE FIELD MET, WHIST TRAVELLING DOWN THE LAGGAN ESTATE ROAD, THEN CARRIES ON 800M TO MEET THE BRUC DUBH STREAM WHICH IT THEN FOLLOWS TO MEET THE RIVER LAGGAN AT THE WATER GATE. THE LAND UPSTREAM IS PART OF ISLAND FARM, PART OF LAGGAN ESTATE. CURRENTLY OCCUPIED BY THE WIDOW OF THE LATE J D MCKERRELL. THE MARCH CROSSES THE RIVER UP TO THE HIGHER GROUND THEN FOLLOWS ROUND THE BENDS SKIRTING THE ESTATE FORESTRY TO MEET THE RIVER DUICH AT ITS CONFLUENCE WITH THE RIVER LAGGAN CROSSING SOUTH WESTERLY ACROSS DUNES 600M. BEFORE TUNING SOUTH EAST THROUGH DUNES FOR SOME 1200 M PASSING ESTATE FORESTRY TO MEET A FENCE SEPARATING LAGGAN FARM FROM DUICH FARM. TIS FENCE RUNS WEST TO THE SEA ON LAGGAN BAY. THE MARCH FENCE RUNS ON 50 M. TO CROSS THE BIG STRAND �ROAD�, AT A GATE, LEADING FROM THE A846, AT ISLAND FARM ENTRANCE THROUGH THE DUNES ONTO THE BIG STRAND BEACH. HAVING CROSSED THE ROAD IT CARRIES ON SOUTHWARD THEN EAST ON A ZIGZAG ROUTE TO CROSS THE OLD DUICH RIVER THEN MEETS NEW DUICH RIVER WHICH NOW FORMS THE MARCH AS IT FOLLOWS UPSTREAM 400M, TURNING AT RIGHT ANGLES TO 700 M, TO MEET THE A846. TURNING SOUTH IN THE DIRECTION OF PORT ELLEN 600 M. TO A POINT 50 M/ BEFORE THE DUICH RIVER BRIDGE TO CROSS OVER THE ROAD AND RUN BETWEEN THE RIVER AND THE PEAT ROAD INTO DUICH MOSS, EILEAN NA MUICE DUIBHEHAN.750 M. TURN SOUTH TO CROSS THE RIVER AND TRACK TO DUICH LOTTS 450 RN. THEN EAST 450 M. THEN SOUTH TO MEET LOCH DHOMUILL SKIRTING IT WESTERN RIM TO ROUND ITS SOUTHERN SIDE TO MEET A BURN AND FOLLOWUPSTREAM TO MEET THE B8046 BRIDGEND TO PORT ELLEN ROAD. FROM HERE THE MARCH FOLLOWS THE WEST EDGE OF THE SINGLE -TRACK ROAD SOUTH TOWARDS PORT ELLEN 800M. BEFORE TURNING WEST FOR 200 M. THEN BACK SOUTH SKIRTING SCOTTISH WATER, OLD SCHOOL HOUSE AND TIMBER MERCHANTS TO REACH THE LINK ROAD JOINING THE B8046 TO THE A846. FOLLOWING THE ROAD WEST AND SKIRTING HOUSES IT CROSSES THE ROAD SOUTH ALONG A TRACK TO MEET THE RIVER MACHRIE WHICH IT PARALLELS TO THE SEA CROSSING THE A846 AT THE ISLAY/ PORT ELLEN AIRPORT FROM THE B8046 TO A POINT 700 M, DOWNSTREAM IT MARCHES WITH GLEN MACHRIE FARM THEREAFTER IT MARCHES WITH THE MACHRIE HOTEL AND GOLF COURSE TO THE BEACH WHICH IS THE BOUNDARY NORTH FOR 500 M. BEFORE TURNING INLAND TO FOLLOW THE AIRPORT BOUNDARY FENCE BACK TO THE A 846 AND HEAD BACK TOWARDS BOWMRE TO A CONCRETE ROADWAY WITH MINISTRY OF CIVIL AVIATION MARKER STONES, THAT RUN PARALLEL TO THE NQRTHERN AIRPORT BOUNDARY FENCE TO THE SEA HAVING CROSSED THE CONCRETE ROAD, OVER A DUICH FARM CATTLE GRID THAT TAKES THE ROAD NORTH TO AN BEACH ENTRY POINT. FROM WHERE THE MCA MARKERS END THE BEACH IS THE WESTERN BOUNDARY HEADING NORTH TO THE LAGGAN RIVER MEETING LAGGAN FARM JUNCTION WHERE IT MEETS A FENCE AT THE TOP OF A DUNE RUNNING EAST TO THE BIG STRAND GATE. ON LAGGAN FARM THE ESTATE HAS TWO (2) SELF-CATERING COTTAGES. LAGGAN COTTAGE AND GHILLIE BRAE COTTAGE, ALSO A PRIVATELY OWNED LAGGAN FARMHOUSE, MR. & MRS. ANTONY WILLS. THIS SITS ON THE BEACH AT PORTTOBAIR WITHIN WALLED GARDENS, SOME IO.OOO S Q, M. IN AREA. THIS ABUTS LAGGAN FARM STEADING WITH BUILDING TO HOUSE CATTLE, SHEEP, BULLS, MACHINERY, STOCK FEED, FANKS FOR STOCK HANDLING, PITS TO STORE SILAGE AND DRAFF. THE FARM AND PROPERTIES ARE SERVICED BY A ESTATE ROAD, FROM THE A946 AT CORRARY COTTAGE, 2 MILS LONG, ENTERING LAGGAN FARM OVER A CATTLE GRID, APPROXIMATELY HALFWAY DOWN, RUNNING DOWN TO THE SHORE TURNING TO THE BUILDINGS. PASSING THROUGH THE STEADING THE TRACK HEADS NORTH -EAST INLAND TO FOLLOW THE SHORE OF LOCH INDAAL TO THE MARCH WITH GARTBRECK AND ISLAY ESTATE. LAGGAN IS AN AREA WITH RAISED BEACHES AND TWO MAIN HEADLANDS OF LAGGAN POINT OR CREAG NAM FITHEACH AND CNOC EBRIC, WITH ITS ANCIENT FORT LISTED IN THE MONUMENTS OF SCOTLAND TOGETHER WITH AN ANCIENT CHURCH AND BURIAL GROUND ON A HEIGHT ABOVE THE RIVER LAGGAN BUT NOW LARGELY ERODED AWAY BY THE SPATE RIVER. THIS RIVER IS ONE OF THE MAIN SALMON RIVERS ON ISLAY. ABOVE THE STEADING LIES LOCHAN NA NTGHEADAIREACHD THE LARGEST ON LAGGAN. TO THE NORTH LIES A VERY LARGE AREA OF PEATLAND KNOWN AS LAGGAN MOSS STRETCHING ACROSS INTO ISLAY ESTATE. RUNNING ALONG THE ESTATE ROAD AND ROUND THE SHORE LIES THE MAIN FARM LAND, WITH A STRIP ALONG LOCH INDAAL AS GRAZING LAND WITH AREAS OF PEAT THAT HAVE BEEN WORKED IN THE PAST. ACROSS THE RIVER STRETCHES A BROAD AREA OF DUNES ALONG THE STRAND LEVELLING OUT INTO DUNE HEATHLAND FROM WHERE THE BIG STRAND ROAD, NOW JUST A TRACK, MEETS THE BEACH AT A GATE. THIS HEATHLAND RUNS TO THE RIVER MACHRIE, AFTER CROSSING THE AIRPORT, AFTERWHICH IT RETURNS TO DUNES AS A LINKS GOLF COURSE. SOME 400 M. INLAND RUNS A HIGH GRAVEL BANK, THE BORDER BETWEEN DUNE/ HEATHLAND AND THE DUICH FIELDS FOR 1100 M. ALTHOUGH IT EXTENDS FROM THE LAGGAN RIVER TO THE KINTRA RIVER. INLAND TO THE A846 IS LARGE AREAS OF PEAT, MUCH WORKED TOGETHER WITH AREAS OF ROUGH GRAZING, SOME OF IT FENCED. AROUND THE AIRPORT SCATTERED REMAINS OF ITS WARTIME PAST BY WAY OF ROADS, HUTAND HANGER CONCRETE BASES. ONE AREA WITH HIGH BANKS AROUND IT, KNOWN AS THE �BOMB BAYS� IS LEASED BY THE ESTATE TO W &M CURRIE FOR THE STORAGE OF SAND AND GRAVEL, EXCAVATED FROM THE BEACH FOR USE ON ISLAY, COVERING SOME 1000 SQ. M. ON THE SOUTH SIDE OF THE AIRPORT WARTIME REMAINS INCLUDE AN ABANDONED SEWERAGE FARM, RUNWAYS, HUT, HANGERS AND TAXIWAYS. ACROSS THE A846 FROM THE AIRPORT THE LINK ROAD HAS THE ISLANDS FUNERAL PARLOUR AND CHAPEL OF REST IN A REMODELLED AIRFIELD GENERATING STATION ANOTHER ONE FURTHER UP THE ROAD IS ESTATE OWNED AND RENTED AS A STORE TO A BUILDER. THE LAND BEHIND IS ROUGH GRAZING AND SHRUBBY. ON THE OPPOSITE SIDE OF THE ROAD AGAIN ROUGH GRAZING AND SHRUBBY TO THE GLENEGEDALE RIVER WHOSE UPSTREAM GLEN IS WOODED UP TO THE A846. ACROSS THE RIVER THERE IS AN ABANDONED GRAVEL PIT BEYOND WHICH LIES PEAT MOORLAND, WITH EXTENSIVE PEAT WORKING FROM THE PAST ALL THE WAY TO MARCH WITH DUICH LOTTS. THE LOWER SECTION BORDERING THE A846 CARRIES ON TO DUICH FARM AND RIVER. DIRECTLY ACROSS FROM THE AIRPORT ALONGSIDE THE LINK ROAD LIES THE AIRPORT COTTAGE WITH A NEW BREWERY BEING CONSTRUCTED BEHIND WHILST ACROSS THE RIVER LIE A GROUP OF BUILDINGS HOUSING SHELL -FISH PROCESSING, ELECTRICAL WORK, CAR SALES AND REPAIR, STORAGE TOGETHER WITH GLENEGEDALE GUESTHOUSE AND SELF-CATERING COTTAGES. DUICH FARM ITSELF LIES BY THE RIVER AND MAIN ROAD AT THE BRIDGE WITH FARMHOUSE AND STEADING. THE ORIGINAL STEADINGS OF BARN AND STABLE SHED REMAIN AROUND THE FARMYARD BUT THE OLD BYRE DEMOLISHED REPLACED WITH MODERN MULTI USE STEEL FRAMED SHEDS FOR SHEEP AND CATTLE HANDLING AND HOUSING AS WELL AS STORAGE BUILDING. ADDITIONAL STEEL FRAMED SHED ACCOMMODATE SHEEP. ACROSS THE MAIN ROAD A DRAFF PIT AND SILAGE PIT HAVE BEEN BUILT WITH A STEEL FRAMED SHED COVERING THE SILAGE PIT. THE FIELDS ARE OVER THE ROAD RUNNING ALONG THE RIVERSIDE BETWEEN IT AND THE GRAVEL BANK AT THE EAST OF THE DUNE HEATHLAND. THEY CONTINUE DOWN TO THE MARCH WITH ISLAND FARM. BOTH FARMS LIE IN THE LAGGAN BAY AND PENINSULA, LBP, SITE OF SPECIAL SCIENTIFIC INTEREST ,SSSI, UNDER THE WILDLIFE & COUNTRYSIDE ACT 1981, THEN BROUGHT UNDER THE EU BIRDS DIRECTIVE SPECIAL PROTECTION AREA SPA, 1989 THEN ENHANCED BY NATURA 2000 PROTECTION BRINGING THE EU HABITATS DIRECTIVE ARTICLE 6 AS FURTHER PROTECTION. THE TOTAL LBP AREA IS SOME 1372 HA. OF WHICH LAGGAN FARM, 361.14HA. IS TOTALLY DESIGNATED. OF DUICH FARM ONLY 158.74 HA. IS WITHIN THE SITES. IN TOTAL 519.88 HA, OUT OF A GROSS LAND AREA OF 1288 HA. OF THE TENANTED FARMS ARE IN THE PROTECTED AREA. WITHIN THE FARMS 128.69 HA. IS ARABLE, 214.97 IS PERMANENT PASTURE AND 859.21 ROUGH GRAZING WITH 45.01 ROADS, LOCHANS, MILITARY REMAINS AND WOODED AREAS. THE ATTACHED MAPS SHOW THE EXTENT OF THE TENANCY MAP 1 AND THE AREA COVERED BY THE SSSI AND SUBSEQUENT DESIGNATIONS. MAP 2, ARABLE AREAS MARKED GREEN.
- Number of maps/plans
- 2
- Landowners
LAGGAN PROPERTIES LTD., 5 TRENCH RD, MALLUSK, ANTRIM, NORTHERN ISLAND
LAGGAN ESTATES, ISLAND HOUSE, BOWMORE, ISLE OF ISLAY, ARGYLL, PA43 7JF