Archaeology Notes

Event ID 658453

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NG44NW 2 413 487

(NG 413 487) Buaile Bhlair: Site of conflict between the Macleods and Macdonalds AD. 1539. (NAT)

OS 6" map, Inverness-shire, 2nd ed., (1904).

See also NG44NW 11.

A large cairn of stones, said to have covered the slain, until lately stood here, but was carted away to make room for the plough.

Name Book 1877.

A large, probably chambered, cairn on the opposite side of Loch Snizort, 300m to the N, today bears the legend that it covers the slain of the battle. (q.v. NG44SW 11)

Visited by OS (C F W) 24 April 1961.