Archaeology Notes

Event ID 659885

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NF73NE 3 7785 3711

(NF 7783 3721) Dun Raouill (NR)

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

Dun Raoiull is situated on an islet about 80 yards from the southern shore of Loch Druidibeg, South Uist. It is built of drystone masonry and is rectangular in plan. Opposite the entrance, an irregular setting of large boulders in the loch indicates a possible harbour.

RCAHMS 1928.

Dun Raouill is as described and planned above. Date uncertain, probably medieval. On the island, 100.0m to the NE centred at NF 779 371 there are the remains of a few oval buildings and a garden, almost certainly associated with Dun Raouill. Surrounding the garden, and along part of the perimeter of the island is a tumbled stone wall about 0.4m high with a possible harbour in the SE. At the NW end of the wall is a small cairn 1.6m in diameter by 0.5m high.

Surveyed at 1:2500.

Visited by OS (R D) 17 May 1965.