Cragabus

Cragabus
Coordinates	55 ° 38 ′  N , 6 ° 15 ′  W Coordinates: 55 ° 38 ′  N , 6 ° 15 ′  W
Cragabus
administration
Post town	ISLE OF ISLAY
ZIP code section	PA46
prefix	01496
Part of the country	Scotland
Council area	Argyll and Bute
British Parliament	Argyll and Bute
Scottish Parliament	Argyll and Bute

Cragabus is a small scattered settlement on the Scottish Hebridean island of Islay . It is located about 3.5 kilometers west of the Port Ellen ferry terminal and 15 km south of the island's capital Bowmore in the north of the Oa Peninsula . The town was historically divided into Upper , Middle and Lower Cragabus . The closest settlement is Coillabus, about a kilometer to the southwest . Two kilometers to the southeast is the abandoned village of Ballychatrigan .

Today Cragabus consists of only a few inhabited houses. In 1861, 90 people were still counted in Cragabus, divided into 17 families. In the 19th century there was probably a whiskey distillery in Cragabus for a short time . In 1967 traces of a historical group of huts near Cragabus were described, the existence of which is not certain.

prehistory

The remains of three Cairns have been discovered in Cragabus . One measures around 17 m and is 1.2 m high. In a prominent position on a hilltop there is a second cairn, about eight meters high, about one meter high, but which has been largely destroyed. The third cairn is the Clyde Tomb by Cragabus . The chambers of a gallery were built on an area of ​​4.8 × 1 m ² . In the area there are menhirs , which probably belong to the complex. Furthermore, north of Lower Cragabus there are the remains of a summer willow hut ( English Shieling hut ).

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  Landscape in Middle Cragabus

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  Remains of the Clyde Tomb

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Entry on Cragabus  in Canmore, the database of Historic Environment Scotland (English)
2. ↑ Census of Scotland 1861
3. ↑ Entry on lostdistillery.com
4. ↑ Entry on Upper Cragabus  in Canmore, the database of Historic Environment Scotland (English)
5. ↑ Entry on Upper Cragabus  in Canmore, the database of Historic Environment Scotland (English)
6. ↑ Entry on Upper Cragabus  in Canmore, the database of Historic Environment Scotland (English)
7. ↑ Entry on Cragabus  in Canmore, the database of Historic Environment Scotland (English)
8. ↑ Entry on Lower Cragabus  in Canmore, the database of Historic Environment Scotland (English)