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Eadar a' Chalda Ruin

The building was erected as an inn; exactly what date it was built is now lost in time, but it would have been in full use when the marble was being quarried over at Leadbeg by Jobson. The marble was dragged by sledge pulled by oxen across the hill to a pier at Newton near Kylesku. Then it was shifted by boat to wherever it was needed. Some of it is supposedly part of the Marble Arch in London . Eadar a' Chalda ruin was all built from hammer-cut stone and was well constructed I am sure that it would have seen a good tradel there was even a murder committed in it according to my research, not uncommon for an inn in those days. The inn would have fallen victim to the Highland clearances and left to revert slowly back to nature; the gable ends are in a perilous state and a few more winters could well bring them down.