Durness Parish Register - Part 2

[Forfarian]

As I said, I can't be sure either way. It was just that I couldn't say in all honesty that I am certain that these were the walls they lived in.

[wilros]

https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1265197

When I look at Geograph photo #1265197 I see a small older cottage on the left, with a small door and small windows, built of smaller, rougher hewn stone, with some rocks appearing potentially undressed, and no exterior veneer of mortar. On the right I see a large addition, built of larger and more finely dressed stone, with a larger door and larger window openings, with an exterior veneer of mortar or grout. The chimney looks like part of the addition, not the original cottage.

I hope I get the chance to walk about there someday so I can post some higher resolution photos to Geograph!

Thanks again Forfarian for uncovering the photo.

[wr]

[Forfarian]

https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/1265197

When I look at Geograph photo #1265197 I see a small older cottage on the left, with a small door and small windows, built of smaller, rougher hewn stone, with some rocks appearing potentially undressed, and no exterior veneer of mortar. On the right I see a large addition, built of larger and more finely dressed stone, with a larger door and larger window openings, with an exterior veneer of mortar or grout. The chimney looks like part of the addition, not the original cottage.

Yes, you are quite right. The part on the left in Colin Kinnear's photograph, does look older than the rest. 

I hope I get the chance to walk about there someday so I can post some higher resolution photos to Geograph!

Great idea - but take some more photos of the surroundings while you are there. It looks like a toughish walk - a couple of miles of pathless moorland. But at least there's only 100 metres of a climb from Carbreck.

[wilros]

forfarian,

lol, balloch mor is just one item on a long list of sites in durness parish that i hope to document some day with higher resolution photos, and then post all the photos on geograph. at the moment i have far too many pictures to capture in a one week visit, so it will have to be at least two weeks! and sadly, not during covid-19. my list includes borley, clashneach, cnockbreac, balnakeil, crosple, uaibig, achuchoran, aultcoirfheasgil, sartigrim, balloch mor, achiemore, kervaig, cape wrath, eilean hoan, inverhope, loch hope, alltnacaillich, luibain, allt a mhuiseil, dun dornaigil broch, just a wee bit of wandering about in various directions...

and that's just in durness parish...

[wr]

[Forfarian]

I know the feeling - places I want to go and photograph.

[meanno]

Some time ago I mentioned on here that I was writing the story of Hugh McCulloch 1793-1842. It's now complete and available on this (ad-free) link: https://durnesstocalifornia.blogspot.com
There's nothing in it relating to his Durness connection that hasn't been mentioned here, but one fact I don't mention in the story as it doesn't really fit is that he was, at the last count, the third Scotsman to ever set foot in California, the first two being sailors who jumped ship in 1814 and 1818 respectively.   

[wilros]

Some time ago I mentioned on here that I was writing the story of Hugh McCulloch 1793-1842. It's now complete and available on this (ad-free) link: https://durnesstocalifornia.blogspot.com

Fabulous work Meanno!

[wr]

[wilros]

Uggh - "Durness 'swamped' by post-lockdown roadside campers"

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-highlands-islands-53713593

:-(

[aspin]

Uggh - "Durness 'swamped' by post-lockdown roadside campers"
Shocking Elizabeth
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-highlands-islands-53713593

:-(