Field Visit
Date 5 July 1915
Event ID 1103750
Category Recording
Type Field Visit
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1103750
Dun na Buail'-uachdraich.
Some 200 yards south of the school at Buail'-uachdraich, near Carnan, is a small loch called Loch Dunna Buail' -uachdraich, the southern end of which terminates in swampy ground. On a mound in this reedy swamp formed by the lowering of the outfall from the loch, is Dun na Buail'-uachdraich. This has been a circular stone-walled fort, but the whole of the northern half has been removed, and all that remains is a semicircular bank of stone and earth on the southern side, more than 12 feet broad and some 5 feet in height. The dun has been about 50 feet in diameter externally. Two and three courses of the outer face of the wall are undisturbed, and these show all the characteristics of broch building. There has been an outer wall surrounding the main defence, but it is also greatly dilapidated, and only the southern half of the circle is traceable. Its remains form a ring of stones about 10 feet in width, at a distance varying from 30 to 45 feet from the inner wall.
RCAHMS 1928, visited 5 July 1915.
OS map: South Uist xlviii.
