Field Visit
Date November 1981
Event ID 1166353
Category Recording
Type Field Visit
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NR 313 404. Situated about 500m SSE of the deserted steading of Stremnishmore, on the irregular summit of the elongated rocky stack Carraig Bun Aibhne, there are the very tenuous remains of what has possibly been a fort.
The stack, which is aligned NW and SE, lies on the left bank of a nameless stream, in a natural amphitheatre formed by a re-entrant in the coastal cliffs. The position is moderately well defended by nature: the SW flank of the stack presents steep rock-faces up to 12.0m high, but on the NE there are grassy slopes, rising to an average height of only 3.0m above the level of adjacent ground.
The fort measures about 40m by 18m over all, and appears to have been defended by a single stone wall drawn round the irregular margin of the summit. The wall survives, at best, as a thin band of grass-grown rubble or a low stony scarp; elsewhere it has been removed by stone-robbing, or, as on the S half of the NW side, by the collapse of the rock face. The position of the entrance is probably indicated by a cleft, 3.0m wide, in the rocky scarp that forms the margin of the summit on the NNW. The low grassy scarps within the interior appear to be entirely natural in origin, although it is probable that most of the level ground on the summit has been cultivated in the recent past.
RCAHMS 1984, visited November 1981.
