Tugnet: Ice House

Tugnet is reputed to the largest icehouse in Scotland. There are 6 vaulted chambers with cobbled floors and drainage sumps. Ice was collected during the winter and shot into vaults through external chutes.

Icehouses are usually built into the side of a slope to retain cold but here the site is flat and the semi-subterranean, mounded structure excavated, turf covered and brick-lined for coolness.
Built originally for storing the salmon netted in the River Spey, it now houses the Scottish Dolphin Centre.

Guided tours of the icehouses at 12.15 and 15.15pm

Join a tour by one of the Dolphin Centre guides, through the past, present and future of Spey Bay. See inside this unique building, the fishermen's tools, the giant whale bones and the 'Underwater World' movie.

For more information contact
Rob Ward, Scottish Dolphin Centre
01343 820339
www.wdcs.org/scottishdolphincentre