Skye, Dun Gearymore
Archaeological Landscape (Prehistoric) - (19th Century)
Site Name Skye, Dun Gearymore
Classification Archaeological Landscape (Prehistoric) - (19th Century)
Alternative Name(s) Unish
Canmore ID 10937
Site Number NG26SW 1
NGR NG 236 649
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/10937
- Council Highland
- Parish Duirinish
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Skye And Lochalsh
- Former County Inverness-shire
NG26SW 1.00 236 649
(NG 2368 6490) Dun Gearymore (NR)
OS 6" map, Inverness-shire, 2nd ed., (1904)
NG26SW 1.01 NG 2337 6422 Building (240)
NG26SW 1.02 NG 2336 6416 Building (241)
NG26SW 1.03 NG 2335 6406 Shieling-hut (242)
NG26SW 1.04 NG 2357 6486 Farmstead (243-247)
NG26SW 1.05 NG 2357 6488 Hut-circle (248)
NG26SW 1.06 NG 2358 6481 Farmstead (249-251)
NG26SW 1.07 NG 2368 6492 Building; Enclosure (252, 253)
NG26SW 1.08 NG 2367 6490 Shieling-huts (254-256)
NG26SW 1.09 NG 2365 6492 Hut-circles (257-259)
NG26SW 1.10 NG 2373 6498 Hut (260)
NG26SW 1.11 NG 2367 6490 Broch (302)
NG26SW 1.12 NG 2345 6251 Shieling-hut (625)
NG26SW 1.13 NG 2387 6453 Shieling-hut; Shieling-mound (626-627)
NG26SW 1.14 Centred NG 234 646 Cultivation Remains
Field Visit (1 November 1990)
The area around the broch of Dun Gearymore (NG26SW 1.11) is covered with the remains of a variety of structures. These include the immediate surroundings of the broch, where there are at least three hut-circles, traces of an enclosing rampart, several shielings and a farmstead and extending from it a series of enclosures and cultivation remains and a scatter of shieling-huts, buildings, farmstead and a hut-circle.
Visited by RCAHMS (PJD), 1 November 1990.
