Field Visit
Date June 1981
Event ID 1082713
Category Recording
Type Field Visit
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This small stony island in the middle of Loch Leathan appears to be partly artificial in origin. It has a boulder strewn shoreline and there is a boat-inlet in the NE sector. The low summit-area is occupied by the foundations of a building of indeterminate, but probably originally rectangular plan, which has been considerably altered at the S end by the construction of three duck-shooting hides in modern times. A tradition relating to an episode in 1647, when Alasdair MacDonald was fired upon with arrows from this island, suggests that it was considered to be a 'castle' at that period; but there are no surviving remains to confirm that it has been fortified to any degree. A conventional building is shown on the island on Pont's map of about 1590 (en.2).
RCAHMS 1992, visited June 1981
