Field Visit

Date 1876 - 1878

Event ID 979865

Category Recording

Type Field Visit

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/979865

'This name applies to a circular cairn of stone about 22 yards in diameter by about 15 feet high it is situated at the head of Loch Eyre and the northern Bank of the River Haultin. Meaning grey cairn'.

[Annotated in red: 'Supposed to contain the bones of the rival clans who fought here in 1539'].

Ordnance Survey Name Book, Inverness-shire (Skye) vol. 7., p.137, 1876-8.