Field Visit
Date 25 June 1915
Event ID 921107
Category Recording
Type Field Visit
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/921107
Cairn, Tigh Cloiche, Carnan Iochdar.
Barely 1 ½ miles south-south-west of the southern end of the South Ford , at Carnan Iochdar, and some 170 yards east of the main road through the island, on rolling moorland, at an elevation some 20 feet above sea-level, is a cairn of stones known as Tigh Cloiche, which has been considerably disturbed. On the summit, on its western edge, and in the near neighbourhood, are the ruins of small houses or shielings built of stones removed from the cairn. It is nearly circular and now measures about 54 feet in diameter and 6 feet in height. It is surrounded by a broad hollow on the north, east and south, some 30 feet wide at least at the bottom, which possibly has been excavated, thus providing a plat on which to erect the cairn. There is a considerable amount of soil among the stones, but the structure is so dilapidated that it is impossible to detect any margin al setting of stones or traces of a chamber.
RCAHMS 1928, visited 25 June 1915.
OS map: South Uist xlv iii (unnoted) .
