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Latitude: 56.437 / 56°26'13"N
Longitude: -5.2297 / 5°13'46"W
OS Eastings: 200985
OS Northings: 731874
OS Grid: NN009318
Mapcode National: GBR FCGP.WVM
Mapcode Global: WH1HM.MGWQ
Plus Code: 9C8PCQPC+Q4
Entry Name: Lorn Furnace, Bonawe Ironworks
Listing Name: Lorne Furnace and Ancillary Buildings, Bonawe
Listing Date: 20 July 1971
Category: A
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 344871
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB12180
Building Class: Cultural
ID on this website: 200344871
Location: Glenorchy and Inishail
County: Argyll and Bute
Electoral Ward: Oban North and Lorn
Parish: Glenorchy And Inishail
Traditional County: Argyllshire
Tagged with: Architectural structure
Dated 1753. Random rubble. Slated roofs.
BLAST FURNACE: Central chimney (wide fireplace with iron lintel inscribed "Bunawe 1753") brick at top.
STORE HOUSE: Coursers in front with 2 pointed doorways.2 OUT-BUILDINGS for charcoal and ore.
WORKERS' HOUSES:
NE workers' dwellings: Rubble, part harled, slate roofs. ONLY ROOFLESS PART IS SCHEDULED.
SE workers' dwellings: 1 1/2 storey row (Lochandu Cottages). Rubble, part limewashed, slate roofs.
Guardianship Monuments (not the workers' houses, although the roofless part of the NE cottages is Scheduled). Built for Lancashire Company which leased adjoining birch woods and imported iron ore from Furness to be smelted with charcoal and cast into pig-iron. Closed 1866 or 1874.Scheduled 23 February 1998.
Scheduled Ancient Monument No 90037.
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