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Auchindrain ((スコットランド・ゲール語:Achadh an Droighinn)) lies on the A83, six miles south of Inveraray in Argyll and Bute, Scotland. It is the only township to survive substantially unaltered from amongst the many hundreds that existed across the Scottish Highlands before the Highland Clearances of the late 18th and 19th centuries. The major part of the museum is the 22 buildings and building remains of the township. 12 of these buildings are mainly complete with the remains of the other 10 requiring work. Also in the area are other man made features on the 22 acres of museum grounds in various condition of repair, including stone dykes, stackyards, stack bases, kailyards, middens, pathways, roads, a corn kiln and evidence of run-rig farming methods. The site is open to the public as the Auchindrain Township Open Air Museum between April and September each year. ==Evolution== Achadh an Droighinn/Auchindrain is first found in documentary references from the early 16th century. At this time the settlement was clearly an established. It is not known precisely when the township was initially established, but because of its location on the relatively high and poor ground of the watershed between two rivers, the “field of….” in its name, and its nearness to the former township site of Braleckan – Bràigh Leacann, it is suggested that it may very well have been founded through “splitting” of the Braleckan township as a result of population growth in a the late medieval period. From the early 1500s to the 1770s Auchindrain was just another township, one of thousands spread across Scotland. Almost nothing is known about this period other than the identities of successive owners or principal tenants, and the appearance of some of the township’s people’s names where they appear in legal documents. In 1776 the Duke of Argyll reacquired the township, the Duke and his Chamberlain (factor) were early enthusiasts for the principles of agricultural improvement. Auchindrain is included in a list from 1779 of all those living on the Duke’s land. A plan was made in 1789, by the surveyor George Langlands, for the township to be rebuilt and reorganised into crofts as many of the other townships in were. In Auchindrain this was never implemented, possibly because the investment required would not have justified the financial return. 〔(【引用サイトリンク】website=Auchindrain Township )〕 In 1875, when Queen Victoria was staying at Inveraray Castle, she visited what she called the “primitive villages” of Auchindrain and Achnagoul (between here and Inveraray). 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Auchindrain」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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