Archaeology Notes

Event ID 812634

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NR46SE 3 47148 62701

(NR 4713 6269) Claig Castle (NAT) (In Ruins)

OS 6" map, Argyllshire, 2nd ed., (1900)

Claig Castle: This West-Highland type hall-house measures 15.2m by 12.0m over walls 2.5m to 2.8m thick and survives to first floor level. A cross-wall dividing the ground floor, and a mural stair are features of the original structure (Jarvis 1974). Pennant (1774) noting this building as ruinous, states that its W side is defended by a deep, rock-cut ditch. It belonged to the Macdonalds.

T Pennent 1774; M C Jarvis 1974.

Budge regards the ditch noted above as a natural feature. He names the castle "Clag Castle".

D Budge 1960.

Claig Castle (name verified), as described by Jarvis, is situated on a cliff-girt plateau at the south-east end of Am Fraoch Eilean, separated from the main body of the island by a steep, natural gully.

Surveyed at 1/10,000.

Visited by OS (N K B) 22 May 1978.