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Archaeology Notes
Event ID 673170
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/673170
NL69NW 2 64767 99611.
(NL 64759960) Dun Mhic Leoid (NAT) (Ruins of) (NAT).
OS 6"map, Inverness-shire, 2nd ed., (1904)
Castle Sinclair, or Dun Mhic Leoid, is a tower, 18 1/2 ft. by 18 ft. over walls 4 1/2 ft. thick, and was originally of three storeys. In 1924 it stood only 15 ft. high. MacGregor (A A MacGregor 1949) describes and illustrates the remains. There is no history or tradition concerning the castle.
RCAHMS 1928; A A MacGregor 1949.
These remains are as described above. The small island on which the remains stand appears to be artificial. There are vague traces of a possible causeway, now submerged, running from the castle to the S. shore of Loch St. Clair. According to Robins (Mr Robins, Schoolmaster, Castlebay, Barra) this is "Dun Mhic Leoid", a 'dower' castle, and not Castle Sinclair - a name given to it by a 19th. c. French romantic.
Visited by OS (W D J), May 1965.
T233: Traces of a substantial roundhouse underlie the late medieval tower.
K Branigan and P Foster 1985.
