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Field Visit
Date 28 May 1914
Event ID 1105058
Category Recording
Type Field Visit
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1105058
Fort, Tom na h-Uraich, Bagh nan Gunnaichean, near Kilmaluag.
This cliff fort is situated about 1 mile east of Kilmaluag Bridge, on a slight hillock on the edge of the cliff which rises 200 feet out of the sea at Bagh nan Gunnaichean. Towards the land to the west the ground falls away in a gentle slope. The stones used in the construction of the fort have almost entirely been removed, leaving only two slight banks to mark the lines of the defences. Within an oval enclosure, measuring internally some 30 yards in length from north by west to south by east and 44 feet in breadth, the walls of which terminate on the edge of the cliff on the northern and southern ends, is a circular building 20 feet in diameter internally, placed midway between the edge of the cliff and the outer wall on the western flank and 20 feet from the northern end. The wall of this structure is reduced to a width of 2 feet and a height of 1 foot 6 inches, the entrance being placed in the northern arc. Abutting on the outside of the southern arc is a crescentic enclosure 8 feet broad.
RCAHMS 1928, visited 28 May 1914.
OS map: Skye iv.
