Congratulations to Icarus. for FTF!
PLEASE OBSERVE ANY ACCESS/DEER STALKING ADVICE NOTICES AND CONTACT THE RELEVANT PEOPLE IF NECESSARY .
There is room for one car to park beside the phone box at Ardbeg. Please avoid obstructing gates or entrances. There are two tracks, one on either side of the bungalow. Use the most easterly track which goes through a gate. Allow four hours for finding the cache and seeing the other sites of interest.
There are a few sites of interest en route:
Airigh nam Beist (Sheiling/summer pasture of the beast), marked by three ruined gables atop a hill.
The ruined house at Solam; quite a substantial ruin and sometimes mistaken for the plague village itself.
Portrait of ‘Robbie Burns’ - a carving allegedly made by an old shepherd using primitive tools on a rock a few metres beyond the ruined house.
Plague Village - according to legend, during the eighteenth century, a plague was introduced to the area by a shipwrecked sailor who left a pearl necklace as a sign of his gratitude for the residents’ hospitality. Unfortunately the necklace contained deadly germs!! The remains of the houses are barely visible in the glen south-west of Solam and can take some finding.
Tobar na Dabhaich - wishing well located slightly south-east of the plague village. At least two rusty horseshoes may be hung above the well.
CACHE LOCATION
The cache is located 55 - 60 metres south-west of the ruined house at Solam in a hollow in the rockface. Concealed by a fragmented earthenware pot and, at the time of placement, sharing the same hollow as a sheep’s skull! When placed, the cache contained information about the plague village and something which the feverish residents may have found useful to alleviate their suffering!
If the cache is found damaged - or missing, please contact us.