Field Visit
Date 29 June 1915
Event ID 1104075
Category Recording
Type Field Visit
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1104075
Entrenchment, Abhuinn Roag, Snishival.
On gently falling moorland, about ¾ mile east of the road at Snishival, the burn Ahhuinn Roag makes a very quick bend to the south, within which, on the right bank of the stream, a raiding party of Macleods from Skye were encountered and defeated by the local MacDonalds. The latter are said to have entrenched themselves here while waiting the approach of the invaders, who had landed at Loch Skiport. The position is defended on three sides by the link in the burn, and is open to the north-west. There is a circular excavation about 5 feet deep and 70 feet across, with a slight bank concentric with the outer rim of the hollow on the north and east, which gives this part the appearance of a trench some 18 feet wide. On the east it is some 35 feet from the bank of the burn, but towards the south-west the stream has cut into the edge of the hollow.
RCAHMS 1928, visited 29 June 1915.
OS map: South Uist l.
