Site Name: Butter Bridge
Alternative Name(s): Glen Croe / Glen Kinglas / Kinglas Water, Butterbridge
Monument Type: Bridge
Council: Argyll and Bute
Parish: Lochgoilhead and Kilmorich
Map Sheet: NN20NW
Grid Reference: 223410, 709510
Canmore Number: 23752
Non-Statutory Register Code: B
WoSASPIN 1790
Butterbridge: A handsome single segmental arch over the Kinglass Water, rubble built. Now used as a footbridge only.
Visited and photographed by J R Hume, Strathclyde University, 29 April 1971, 10 May 1976.
Information from NMRS MS/749/80/1, 2.
Butter Bridge measures 34m in overall length, with a segmental arch 9.3m in span and 3.4m high, and the roadway is 3.85m wide within 0.5m parapets having rough slab-copings.
RCAHMS 1992, p.513-4.
Entered WoSAS (CF) 13/05/99
Built c.1745. Segmental arch. Hump-backed. Random rubble. Slab coping. On military road. Category B Listed
Derived from HS Listed Building data
Entered WoSAS (MO'H) 18/10/2010
Taylor, W , The military roads in Scotland. Newton Abbot.(1976)
RCAHMS , The Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland. Argyll: an inventory of the monuments: Vol 7: Mid Argyll and Cowal: medieval and later monuments. Edinburgh.(1992)