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Old landing place and ballast mound

The dark, curving structure which is shown here, exposed at low tide just off the south-eastern shore of Ardmore Point, is also shown on the 25-inch-to-the-mile OS map that was surveyed in 1860; there, it is dotted in rather lightly, but is shown with very much the same outline as it has at the present day.

These remains are not to be confused with the NS3178 : Remains of a quay located 400 metres further along the shoreline. See Link (at Canmore) where the structures shown in the present photograph are described as a "fish trap" and "possible ballast mound".

It is unlikely to be a yair (fish trap); David Murray, in his book "Old Cardross" (1880) lists all six yairs to be found on the shore between Ardoch and Craigendoran, and this is not one of them; see NS3576 : Ardoch Yair. The apparent ballast mound also suggests a different use.

It may instead be what Murray calls "the Kyloch" ("Kyloch, The – the landing place in the White Bay"; "White Bay, The – the bay on the south-east side of the Hill of Ardmore"), or either the Big or Little Layer (on which, see the link above on the remains of a quay).

For the mound, see NS3278 : Ballast mound and (closer) NS3278 : Ballast mound.