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Field Visit
Date 9 August 1924
Event ID 1104211
Category Recording
Type Field Visit
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1104211
Castle Sinclair (O.S. Dun Mhic Leoid).
Built on an islet at the upper end of Loch Tangusdale, otherwise Loch St Clair, which lies beneath Ben Tangaval, 1 ½ miles north-west of Castlebay, the ruin of a small square tower, Dun Mhic Leoid, occupies the south-west corner of the site and touches the water on two sides. The tower, originally of three storeys, stands only to a height of 15 feet. It measures 18 ½ by 18 feet over walls 4 ½ feet thick. The walls are built of polygonal rubble in lime mortar, and the lower 4 feet of the walling has been pointed. The floors have been of wood, and there are no fireplaces and no stair. The entrance, which faces north, is at first floor level, and opens on a chamber 9 ½ by 8 ½ feet with a three-inch light to the south and the remains of larger windows set within wide embrasures to east and west. The upper floor is demolished; the basement has only a four-inch window at the south-east corner.
The structure is in bad repair.
RCAHMS 1928, visited 9 August 1924.
OS map: Barra lxiv.
