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Archaeology Notes
Date - 1961
Event ID 659189
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/659189
NG61NW 2 6151 1612.
(NG 6151 1612) Dun Boreraig (Fort) (NR).
OS 6"map, Inverness-shire, 2nd ed., (1903)
On the N shore of Loch Eishort at Boreraig, some 1 3/4 miles E of Rudha Suisnish, on a small promontory rising about 40ft above the sea level, are the very scanty remains of Dun Boreraig. Of the defences, all that survives is a grass covered stony mound, which on the N or landward side measures 13ft broad, 6 1/2ft high on the inside and 3ft on the outside, and which, though greatly reduced in size, can be traced a short distance along the E and W flanks. The enceinte, which is rectangular with rounded corners, measures 66ft along the longer axis from N to S and 41ft from E to W. The stones from this dun have doubtless been removed to build an adjoining township, long deserted.
(RCAHMS 1928, visited 15 May 1914).
Dun Boreraig is as described by RCAHMS. It is not a broch.
Visited by OS (C F W) 23 June 1961.
