Take a walk around Loch Coille Bharr and discover the abandoned township of Kilmory Oib. Just like the nearby abandoned township of Arichonan, it is most likely that the tenants here were removed from the land during the Highland Clearances, where landowners realised that they could make more money from having sheep on their land, rather than having tenants to deal with.
Explore the buildings and look slightly further afield for this cache which is an 8 inch square plastic tub with a clip/lock lid. The cache is not located within any of the buildlings or walls but is close by in a quiet corner where you can find it without being seen.
Extract from Forestry and Land Scotland website...
"In Knapdale Forest, near the edge of Loch Coille Bharr, you can discover the remains of the township called Kilmory Oib.
Usually referred to simply as Kilmory, the township is part of the estate known as Oib, or Oab, meaning bay or inlet in Gaelic. The lands of Kilmory belonged to the Campbells, but in 1785 a bankrupt Neil Campbell sold them to Neil Malcolm of Poltalloch.
The township
The township consists of at least seventeen buildings, including houses and byres for the animals. There are also two sub-circular piles of rubble, which may be the remains of corn drying kilns.
There is also an early Christian cross-marked stone, which stands beside a small well. It is thought that the stone dates to the 8th or 9th century.
Historical records mention Kilmory from around the 17th century. One of the earliest known references is in the 1694 Hearth Tax. It records tenants Alexander and Malcolm McIlvernock, Robert Campbell and Donald McMillan as having paid their taxes.
One of the last references is on another tax list, the 1843 Road Money tax, which lists Angus and Archibald McDugall, Neil McCalum and John Gillies as tenants.
It is unknown exactly when and how Kilmory was abandoned but the buildings are shown as unroofed by 1873 when the 1st edition Ordnance Survey map was published."