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©C Michael Hogan
Dist:0.5km<br/>It is a public road to Brenchoillie, with forestry tracks continuing. The one seen ahead up the hillside was in forest which has been felled since the current 1:50,000 map was prepared. The Leacainn Walk follows this road up to the bridge over Leacann Water.
©David Hawgood
Dist:0.5km<br/>In the township this was the barn for the Campbell family who lived in a longhouse next to what is now the visitor centre; their horses and cattle would have been in the longhouse, the barn was for storage of equipment and crops. The family emigrated, and the barn became a cattle byre for other families. The barn is now across the A83 from the road entrance to the museum.
©David Hawgood
Dist:0.5km<br/>A red "tin" sheeting roof. Opposite the museum entrance.
©Richard Webb
Dist:0.6km<br/>Looking towards Dun Leacainn (359m) across the A83. This patch was profusely colonised by orchids.
©Karl and Ali
Dist:0.6km<br/>Opposite the museum with a view towards Beinn Ghlas.
©Richard Webb
Dist:0.6km<br/>A part of the Auchindrain Township open air museum.
©Steve Partridge
Dist:0.6km<br/>Cottar's House shows how a small thatched house might have looked at Auchindrain in the eighteenth century. Inside, the thatched roof is supported by a cruck frame. There was a light partition separating the living end from the byre, and there would have been a fire built in the middle of the floor. The house is dark inside, and would have been smoky, but it reflects what was common in these times - it was clarty but cosy. It may originally have been a cottar's house. A cottar was not a township tenant, but a subtenant who had just a small house and kailyard in return for work for the tenant. http://www.auchindrainmuseum.org.uk/ - Auchindrain Museum
©David Dixon
Dist:0.6km<br/>Auchindrain is an original highland township, typical of the many which once existed throughout the highlands of Scotland, but which are now long gone. The conserved buildings of the township have been furnished and equipped, presenting to visitors a fascinating glimpse of the true lives of the highlanders. http://www.auchindrainmuseum.org.uk/ - Auchindrain Museum
©David Dixon
Dist:0.6km<br/>Auchindrain is an original highland township, typical of the many which once existed throughout the highlands of Scotland, but which are now long gone. The conserved buildings of the township have been furnished and equipped, presenting to visitors a glimpse of the lives of the highlanders. http://www.auchindrainmuseum.org.uk/ - Auchindrain Museum
©David Dixon
Dist:0.6km<br/>Auchindrain is an original highland township, typical of the many which once existed throughout the highlands of Scotland, but which are now long gone. The conserved buildings of the township have been furnished and equipped, presenting to visitors a glimpse of the lives of the highlanders. http://www.auchindrainmuseum.org.uk/ - Auchindrain Museum
©David Dixon
Dist:0.6km<br/>The building on the left is a longhouse accommodating the MacCallum family and their animals. The building on the right is their barn for storage. Seen behind them - across what is now the A83 road - the fields were divided into narrow strips provided by lot to different families. A family did not have one continuous area of land, it had strips (rigs) scattered around the township's land.
©David Hawgood
Dist:0.6km<br/>At the end of the MacCallum longhouse in Auchindrain open-air museum is a cow byre with movable wooden poles arranged to hold the heads of horned cattle so they can move their heads up and down, but cannot move out.
©David Hawgood
Dist:0.6km<br/>Auchindrain is an original highland township, typical of the many which once existed throughout the highlands of Scotland, but which are now long gone. The conserved buildings of the township have been furnished and equipped, presenting to visitors a glimpse of the lives of the highlanders. http://www.auchindrainmuseum.org.uk/ - Auchindrain Museum
©David Dixon
Dist:0.6km<br/>Auchindrain is an original highland township, typical of the many which once existed throughout the highlands of Scotland, but which are now long gone. The conserved buildings of the township have been furnished and equipped, presenting to visitors a glimpse of the lives of the highlanders. http://www.auchindrainmuseum.org.uk/ - Auchindrain Museum
©David Dixon

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