Bord A Dubh

[Buzz Lightyear]

Anyone know why it was demolished?

Was home at he weekend and took the dog up that way a walk. The property looks as though it has recently been flattened.

[Crowth]

I was last through there on Xmas Eve and it was intact then. Perhaps the New Year gales played some part in Bord a Dubhs demise?

[sawdust]

It was pulled down the first or second week of March 2012, the forestry commision will be the best ones to ask why?
McFadyens where there for a day or so and the house is now history!

[Ross]

Thats a great shame, spent many a weekend up there as a kid. Is there anywhere like this for the kids in youth groups to get out into the hills these days ?

[petewick]

Aye thats a shame......my great great grandmother was the last resident there, used go there a lot with sea cadets. Not fkn happy about this.....

[Annie]

Bloody shame it is!

[WC1]

Shame? When did local (or any) organisations or groups ever use it? It had been falling into neglect and dereliction for years.

[petewick]

Actually WC1, it had been extensively vandalised in the early 2000's, up until then it
had been mothballed as the conveners, The Kintyre Outdoors Centers commitee had become
defunct and had left Bordadubh and Glenbreckerie open to the elements and idiots.
Both were excellent facilities, it gave us youngsters a more rewarding alternative to tv or
hanging around the streets and it gave us plenty to talk about at school on Mondays.
It should have been preserved as a satelite bunkhouse as per the one thats in town.
Another piece of Kintyres history and heritage gone forever due to lack of insight and lateral
thinking and plain ignorance......

[petewick]

Was up there last week, all that's left is the old
back wall where the coal pile was.
My great great grandmother died in Bordadubh and my
great uncle Malcolm was the last shepherd there until
1947 when the meadow was flooded to make the Lussa Loch
for the hydro electric scheme.
Theres no remains of the house whatsoever, I couldnt
bring myself to take a photograph of the site.

[weetoonplodder]

The last time I was home I was up visiting the place for personal reasons and it was really sad to see it in such as sad state, but unfortunately due to lack of funding and use the Outdoor Centre Commitee could not keep it going, as much as we tried, It was kept wind and watertight, but a damp and sparce building in the middle of nowhere cannot compete with a warm and cosy bedroom with a wii, nintento, play station or the internet as far as todays modern kids are concerned.

Many's a wet and happy weekend I spent there when I was a kid in the 80's in the BB's and in the 90's as an officer in the BB's with some of the younger kids. The fact that my mother lived there as a child with her parents and siblings makes it all the more sad as my mum and grand parents used to tell me what life was like there, my grandfather had lived there with his mother until he was married to my grandmother, my mother and her brothers had to walk from Bordadubh to Corrylach every day to get the school car to Campbeltown and then walk back again at night and that would be over the fields as there was no road there at the time. A trip to Campbeltown for groceries was a trip that was made about once every 3 months, when my uncle was born, they had to wait 3 weeks to register the birth at Glenbarr because the snow was that deep that they could not get out.

I have more of the details of what life was like for them when they were there, telling about who came to lend a hand at the clipping, the travelling salesmen that came round the farms once every 6 months selling haberdashery and ironmongery and of how on one occasion they had to kill a pig with a hammer, but unfortunately they are at home. My uncle passed away the other night and he was the last of my family who had lived there, so really it brings to a close the family connection with Bordadubh

Weetoonplodder

In Hot And Sticky Lagos

[petewick]

Got to disagree with you WTP rgarding the use of the building.
Had the FC properly secured the the area it would have not allowed
vandals to wreck the place 10+ years ago.
As for people wnting all the comforts of home when out trecking, I feel
your opinions are hugely deluded and misinformed.
We're obviously related, think I know who you are, surely it's terrible
that a piece of our family history is gone.
As I said, not everyones looking for a 5 star hotel in the wilds, a bit
of rough and ready is adequate for them who don't just play at hillwalking.
As I said before it could have been properly shuttered up and secured during the
winter months and used in conjunction with the new bunkhouse in town.