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Field Visit
Date May 1979
Event ID 1166294
Category Recording
Type Field Visit
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1166294
NR 222 711. On the summit of Beinn Sholaraidh, an elongated rocky headland on the NW coast of Islay, 100m NE of the fort NR27SW 5 and about 1.6km WNW of Sanaigmore farmhouse, there are the severely denuded remains of what has probably been a promontory fort. The summit is aligned approximately NW and SE, and on each flank steep rocky cliffs up to 30m high afford strong natural protection. The seaward end falls less abruptly in a series of rocky shelves, while from the SE moderately steep slopes offer an easier means of approach.
At the SE end of the summit there is a transverse rocky ridge which forms a natural barrier extending across almost the entire width of the promontory. For most of its SW half the landward side of the ridge presents a sheer rock-face 2.6m high, but to the NE it rises only a metre or so above the level of immediately adjacent ground. Between the SW end of the ridge and the cliff edge on that flank there are traces of a boulder-faced, rubble-cored wall 2.3m thick but at present only one course high, and an intermittent scatter of stony debris indicates the further course of the wall along the crest, leading towards the cliffs on the opposite flank. The area thus cut off by the wall measures about 85m from NW to SE by 33m transversely and is seamed with rocky spines and covered by heather. The position of the entrance is not apparent, but it probably lay somewhere in the NE half of the wall.
RCAMS 1984, visited May 1979
