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Latitude: 57.7477 / 57°44'51"N
Longitude: -5.5963 / 5°35'46"W
OS Eastings: 186084
OS Northings: 878791
OS Grid: NG860787
Mapcode National: GBR D8K7.PCX
Mapcode Global: WH07Y.0JCD
Plus Code: 9C9PPCX3+3F
Entry Name: Clapper Bridge, Allt A' Pholl-Choire
Listing Name: Tollie (Clapper) Bridge over Allt A'pholl-Choire to NW of Tollie Farm
Listing Date: 20 March 2000
Category: B
Source: Historic Scotland
Source ID: 394363
Historic Scotland Designation Reference: LB46976
Building Class: Cultural
ID on this website: 200394363
Location: Gairloch
County: Highland
Electoral Ward: Wester Ross, Strathpeffer and Lochalsh
Parish: Gairloch
Traditional County: Ross-shire
Tagged with: Bridge Clapper bridge Road bridge
Early to mid 19th century. 6-span clapper bridge over Allt a'Pholl-choire. Rubble piers; flat arches each spanned by single stone lintel; rubble entablature missing in places.
The clapper bridge, characterised by the rubble piers spanned by single stone slab, was easier to build than an arched bridge. Tollie Bridge is one of a small number of clapper bridges in this area of Scotland. The precise date of the bridge is not known, however the Old Statistical Account of 1792 notes that "There are many rivers in this parish, but no bridges nor passage but by horses;" (OSA, p90) so the bridge was presumably built after that date. In 1866 Horatio McCulloch (1805-1867), one of Scotland's most influential romantic landscape painters, painted a view of Loch Maree, with Tollie Bridge in the middle ground. This painting not only confirms the bridge as being built before 1866, but also suggests that this form of bridge was thought of as being a significant part of the Highland landscape. According to McEwan (p349), McCulloch contributed more to the popular image of the romantic Victorian landscape than any other painter. His painting of Loch Maree was described as "his last great effort...the very best that ever came from the same gifted hand" (Smith, p95).
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