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Field Visit
Date 23 June 1914
Event ID 1102842
Category Recording
Type Field Visit
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1102842
Chambered Cairn (remains of), Caisteal Mhic Creacail, Portnaguiran, Eye Peninsula.
About ¾ mile west of Portnaguiran New Lands, on a gentle slope about 50 yards from, and 25 feet above, the high-water mark on the northern side of the Eye Peninsula, is an irregular heap of stones known as Caisteal Mhic Creacail. The remains show none of the characteristics of a ruined dun, suggested by the name, but a setting of seven large slabs placed on edge, and two prostrate stones towards the south-eastern edge of the heap, though evidently much disturbed, have the appearance of the ruined passage and chamber of a chambered cairn. Four erect slabs from 1 foot 7 inches to 4 feet 6 inches in length and a fallen stone form the northern side of the entrance and curved chamber, while three stones placed on edge from 2 feet to 4 feet 1 inch in length mark the opposite side. The loose stones of the mound have been entirely removed from the eastern part of the structure, but stretching for 70 feet towards the west-north-west from the erect slabs is a tumbled mass of small boulders, and 40 feet to the north the ground has a covering of stone 30 feet long by 15 feet broad.
RCAHMS 1928, visited 23 June 1914.
OS map: Lewis xxi.
