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Dist:0.4km<br/>The village of Toberonochy developed to house the workers who quarried the slate here. In it heyday the quarry behind the village exported 50,000 slates a week to market in Glasgow. Unfortunately the industry, which was founded in the 1760s, did not survive the First World War. The cottages were very small, with just two rooms to serve as living and sleeping space. Many of them are now holiday accommodation.
©Anne Burgess
Dist:0.4km<br/>Close to the harbour at Toberonochy.
©Patrick Mackie
Dist:0.4km<br/>This is the largest farm on the island of Luing.
©Patrick Mackie
Dist:0.4km<br/>As a conservation village Toberonochy provides an excellent view of the ex slate quarriers' cottages.
©Andrew Wood
Dist:0.4km<br/>As a contrast to the neatly conserved cottages in most of Toberonochy, this cottage provides a clue to the construction of what were after all slate quarry workers dwellings.
©Andrew Wood
Dist:0.4km<br/>Whitewashed cottages on a sunlit street in this attractive hamlet. It may have looked less idyllic a century or more ago when this was a busy slate quarrying village.
©Gordon Hatton
Dist:0.4km<br/>The village of Toberonochy developed to house the workers who quarried the slate here. In it heyday the quarry behind the village exported 50,000 slates a week to market in Glasgow. Unfortunately the industry, which was founded in the 1760s, did not survive the First World War. The cottages were very small, with just two rooms to serve as living and sleeping space. Many of them are now holiday accommodation.
©Anne Burgess
Dist:0.4km<br/>Simple white-painted rows of cottages are typical of Luing.
©Patrick Mackie
Dist:0.5km<br/>The village of Toberonochy developed to house the workers who quarried the slate here. In it heyday the quarry behind the village exported 50,000 slates a week to market in Glasgow. Unfortunately the industry, which was founded in the 1760s, did not survive the First World War. The cottages were very small, with just two rooms to serve as living and sleeping space. Many of them are now holiday accommodation.
©Anne Burgess
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©Tom Richardson
Dist:0.5km<br/>Newly renovated cottage at the conservation village of Toberonochy.
©Andrew Wood
Dist:0.5km<br/>A row of part restored cottages in this former slate quarrying village.
©Gordon Hatton
Dist:0.5km<br/>Looking north east from the shore at Toberonochy. In the middle distance on the right is the northern tip of Shuna island, whilst in the far distance are two of the peaks of Ben Cruachan.
©Gordon Hatton
Dist:0.5km<br/>Foreshore, bay and headland beyond, the view out of Toberonochy.
©Andrew Wood
Dist:0.5km<br/>This small harbour has been constructed on Shuna Sound between two piers of slate waste.
©Patrick Mackie

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