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Field Visit
Date 7 May 1914
Event ID 1105175
Category Recording
Type Field Visit
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1105175
Dun Pharuig ("Patrick") (O.S.), or Faich, Kilmore.
On the shore about 350 yards east-north-east of the parish church of Sleat, at Kilmore, is a small promontory terminating in an elevated plateau with precipitous rocky sides, which rises nearly 60 feet above the high watermark and 14 feet above the connecting ridge on the west or landward side. On the summit, which is D-shaped, are the very faint traces of Dun Pharuig. It seems to have been surrounded by a stone wall, but this has almost entirely disappeared except on the landward side, where the outer face shows a height of about 4 feet of a drystone wall built in a straight line. The dun measures 36 feet from north-east to south-west and 34 feet from north-west to south-east. Across the neck which joins it to the land, about 36 feet from the dun, are traces of an outer wall, which may or may not be part of the original defences.
RCAHMS 1928, visited 7 May 1914.
OS map: Skye lvii.
