This illicit whisky bothy is a located at the base of sloping bedrock outcrop at the north end of an un-named lochan in the hills west of Wester Alligin on the NTS Torridon Estate.
The bothy is a well-defined drystone-built structure aligned east to west. It is c. 7.5m long by 4m wide over walls 0.8-1.0m wide. The western end of the building is at the foot of the bedrock outcrop and the opposite, eastern, end is adjacent to a small burn that runs into the lochan. A narrow gulley runs up to the centre of the northern wall and may have been used to divert water into the structure from the burn. Inside and 1m from the eastern end there is a circular depression 1m in diameter, in the centre of the floor. This could perhaps mark the position of a worm tub. There is no clearly identifiable entrance.
The site was surveyed as part of the Pioneering Spirit Project - a partnership between the National Trust for Scotland and The Glenlivet whisky.
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