Archaeology Notes
Event ID 676989
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
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NN44SE 9 4902 4178.
(NN 4902 4178) Tower (NR) (Caisteal Mhic Neill) (In Ruins)
OS 6" map (1900)
Fort: badly mutilated and impossible to plan.
W J Watson 1913
The tumbled remains of a homestead (c/f NN44SE 7), situated at the foot of a S-facing slope in a poor defensive situation. Intermittent traces of the inner and outer wall faces are visible giving a width of 2.8m and an internal diameter of 13.8m. The entrance passage is not apparent. The remains of a crude building in the SW of the interior are probably contemporary with a shieling bothy to the S.
The name "Caisteal Mhic Neill" is still used locally.
Surveyed at 1:10,000.
Visited by OS (JP) 9 September 1975
