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Istrice, the size of the canal locks restricted the size of the Kirkie puffers.

Skoosh.

Knoydart Clearances,

www.glendiscovery.com/highland-clearances.html

Bests,
Skoosh

Mebbes De Launey?

Skoosh.

Second thoughts folks, raised Melgarve with a local and its quite possible that the Geograph photos of Melgarve is indeed the house that Duncan the keeper & Isabella lived in. The south front has one door & a window, the north has a door and two windows and is adjacent to General Wade's Melgarve bridge of about 1730. Now a bothy the front door accesses the livingroom with a small bedroom off with a north window. The stairs lead to two bedrooms, one large which covers the stable below with north door and window.
 Sir John Ramsden bought Glenshiro & Sherramore estates to add to his Ardverikie (the big hoose on "Monarch of the Glen") holdings and proceeded to build lodges, farms etc'
 His architect John Rhynd designed and built a number of shepherd's houses on the Upper Spey & Glen Roy with the fanks well away from the houses and a small byre/stable at the west end. Very fancy for shepherd's houses of the time but these don't match the lay-out of Melgarve or the joinery work.
  Dating 1870/80 the house nearest Melgarve doesn't fit the census returns for 1851/61 and the probability is that Melgarve was built by a former laird. In any case, if Duncan died at Melgarve in the 1880's that's the house

Bests,
Skoosh.