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Field Visit
Date September 1979
Event ID 1167725
Category Recording
Type Field Visit
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1167725
NR 266 712. This small natural island lies about 30m from the s shore of Loch Laingeadail. It is roughly circular on plan, measuring about 19m in maximum diameter, and stood to a height of about 1.5m above the water-level of the loch at the date of survey. The boulder-strewn perimeter shows that the shape and construction of the island has been artificially improved; the facework of a short stretch of an outer enclosing wall is visible in the W sector where it survives to a height of 0.4m, and in the SE sector the footings of this wall appear to form a short landward spur, possibly marking the site of a former jetty or landing-place adjacent to building A. The remains of this building consist of the foundations of a round-angled rectangular structure measuring 6m in length fropi E to W by 3.5m transversely within drystone walls 1m in average thickness and 0.7m in maximum height. The entrance was possibly in the NE side-wall and there is a broad inner platform within the w angle of the building. Vestigial traces of a second and smaller structure, which is very largely obscured by vegetation, lie closer to the W shore of the island. The visible remains indicate a building of rectangular plan, open-ended to the S, and measuring 4.5m in length by 3m transversely within drystone rubble wall's 1m thick There are fragmentary traces of a rubble causeway extending from the S shore of the loch.
The island has no recorded history, but, by analogy with other structures of this type, the buildings can probably be ascribed to the medieval or early post-medieval period.
Visited September 1979
RCAHMS 1984
