Abandoned Cottages On Islay

[viceroy]

While I was on holiday on Islay the other week I spent a couple of hours exploring a few abandoned cottages at Duich Lots, a very bleak place not far from Glenegedale and basically just a large peat bog. The cottages were vacated quite a number of years ago and are in an advanced state of decay. This, together with their isolation, makes them rather poignant places to visit, something I have, in my own very modest way, tried to capture in the following pictures.

These houses lie at the end of a waterlogged, almost impassable, track.

[viceroy]

This house is near a lochan called Loch Dhomnhnuill. As with the other cottages access is difficult because the track is under about a foot of water for much of its length. I understand an elderly couple lived here at one time, but the husband died and his widow, not being able to continue on her own, was forced to move to Port Ellen.

[viceroy]

This old caravan stands beside the cottage depicted in the previous post. It was possibly used for visitors as an electricity cable has been slung from it to the cottage. All the houses appear to have been connected to the National Grid, but I have been told that they did not have a mains water supply. Presumably they got their water from a well.







And finally……………

[Merlot]

Hi,

Great pics, enjoyed them.

Cheers,

Merlot

[My Kitten]

Now that would be a chilly bath!

If only I won the lottery, somewhere like that would be lovely, as long as I could get net access and my shopping delivered I'd be happy there.

[Lucky Poet]

Love the ones wi the two TVs and the piano. To think that was somebody's proudly kept home not so long ago. Poignant stuff, Viceroy. I'll pass on the bath, tho

[bluepeterno1]

Great pictures , no information on who actally owns them.

[Doorstop]

Smashing Pics BP#1 .. but is thon bath full of blood?

What was going on?

It must be like "The Hills Have Eyes" up there.