Projects

Fox Point Path

, by Sue Walker
The path around Fox Point provides a recreational route from the crofting village of Polbain to the Pier of Old Dornie. The Fox Point Path improvements, which have now been completed, allow better access by residents and visitors, enabling them to appreciate the natural beauty of this part of the Coigach coastline. This project is important as it enables people…

Clachtoll Ranger Hut

, by Sue Walker
The aim of this project is to replace the ranger hut at Clachtoll with a structurally sound building with a larger display area to house a wider range and more in-depth interpretation of the natural, cultural, and built heritage of Clachtoll and the wider area in general. In particular, it will house accessible interpretation for Clachtoll Broch to complement the interpretation at the…

Assynt Fisheries Oral History Project

, by Sue Walker
Lochinver, in Assynt,  has been an important centre for fishing from before the Herring Station was built in 1775. This project seeks to record the present status of the fisheries and the remembered history and stories associated with the development of fishing around the peninsula in living memory by local people. The project aims to chart and record the evolution…

Coigach & Assynt Heritage Signage Project

, by Sue Walker
Coigach & Assynt Living Landscape Partnership (CALLP) has several heritage projects that have increased the understanding of local heritage.  The Partnership has also created greater links between the area’s historic and natural heritage and the tourist organisations of Coigach and Assynt. This project aims to highlight this heritage for both Coigach & Assynt on a specially designed map, to be…

Music & Tales of Coigach & Assynt

, by Laura Traynor
A living landscape is more than just scenery; it is the interaction between people and place. Stories, music and song reflect these interactions, helping us better understand where we have come from and where we might go. Coigach and Assynt have a wonderfully rich cultural heritage – the area was Gaelic speaking until three or four generations ago and it…

Artist in Residence

, by Laura Traynor
Over the lifetime of the project (until lockdown restrictions affected our plans) artists, selected through a process of recruitment and interview, spent time in the project area living and working alongside either a single project or possibly a number of projects, to explore how the project’s processes and outcomes can be expressed and interpreted in artistic forms. The periods of…

Achlochan Coastal Heritage

, by Laura Traynor
The natural shelter of the Achlochan peninsula, its coastal location, the presence of inland fresh-water and readily available construction materials have sustained settlers since the Iron Age. Geologists believe the reed bed in Achlochan loch – the largest in Wester Ross, and a Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI) – was once a sea loch and in more recent times…

Clachtoll Broch

, by Laura Traynor
Clachtoll broch is one of the most iconic monuments in northern mainland Britain and a Scheduled Ancient Monument. It was in a dilapidated state and choked with rubble debris. As a result, visitors could only access the broch by climbing over rubble to walk around the site on the wall head. This was both damaging to the broch and hazardous…

Isle Martin Croft House

, by Laura Traynor
Isle Martin is a community owned island looked after by the Isle Martin Trust. The Croft House is one of the oldest existing buildings on the island, and was recorded in the 1875 Ordinance Survey. It is a traditional drystone lime mortar building that can offer sleeping accommodation for 6-8 people, but it had become damp and uninviting over the…

Badentarbet Net Shed

, by Laura Traynor
Commercial salmon fishing was carried in Coigach for over 250 years, up to 1995. During its commercial heyday the fishery encompassed a number of buildings at the Badentarbet Fishing Station, and among the remaining buildings is the 180-year-old former Ice House building (last used as a net shed) which faced further deterioration and permanent disuse. The aims of the project…
 

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