Archaeology Notes
Event ID 657076
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
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NF87SE 4 8560 7381.
(NF 8560 7381) Dun Aonais (NR) (Site of)
OS 6"map, Inverness-shire, 2nd ed., (1901)
Dun Aonghuis (fort of Angus) occupies the whole of the island on which it stands. The circular island is about 34 yards in diameter over a fairly well preserved wall which surrounds it close to the water's edge. There is a boat-entrance on the NW and a causeway on the E connecting the island to the nearest shore.
Foundations of a building 38ft N-S x 12ft E-W can be traced in the centre (E Beveridge 1911), and the Commission (RCAHMS 1928) describe a smaller one to the SE.
The dun is said to have been occupied by Aonghas Fionn (information from MacKenzie, 'History of the MacDonalds', 225) c. 1516.
E Beveridge 1911; RCAHMS 1928.
Dun Aonais is as described by Beveridge and the Commission. It is probable that the interior buildings are contemporary.
Surveyed at 1/10,560.
Visited by OS (R D) 27 June 1965.