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Dun Connavern, Culnaknock, Skye
Dun (Prehistoric)
Site Name Dun Connavern, Culnaknock, Skye
Classification Dun (Prehistoric)
Canmore ID 11534
Site Number NG56SW 3
NGR NG 5085 6284
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/11534
- Council Highland
- Parish Kilmuir
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Skye And Lochalsh
- Former County Inverness-shire
NG56SW 3 5085 6284.
(NG 5085 6284) Dun Connavern (NR)
OS 6" map, Inverness-shire, 2nd ed., (1904)
Dun Connavern, Culnaknock, occupies the whole summit of an oval, rocky knoll on a rough plateau which rises to a height of some 400' above sea level. On the E side the knoll rises barely 15' in height, but on the W it is rather higher and the rocks are steeper. The dun has been defended by a stone wall built on the edge of the hillock, and measures extenally some 79' from NW-SE and about 42' across. On the eastern flank a considerable length of the outer face of the wall remains standing about 3' in height; though quite broken down along the western flank, which is more rugged and irregular, its position is indicated at several places, and at the S end 3 large blocks are left in their original places.
The position of the entrance is doubtful, but a row of stones at the southern end may indicate the line of its western wall.
Along the highest part of the interior about 6 1/2' within the wall on the eastern flank, there is a bank of stones and earth simulating an inner defence, but as the space enclosed by the outer walls is so narrow, it is doubtful if this can have been a wall.
On the plateau below the rocks on the west there are a number of indefinite foundations of stone buildings.
RCAHMS 1928.
Dun Connavern, a fort, correctly described by RCAHMS. Poor condition.
Visited by OS (A S P) 27 April 1961.
Field Visit (31 August 1915)
Dun Connavern, Culnaknock.
This dun occupies the whole summit of an oval, rocky knoll on the rough plateau which rises to a height of some 400 feet above sea-level, about ½ mile west-south-west of the school between Culnaknock and Valtos. On the east side the knoll rises barely 15 feet in height, but on the west it is rather higher and the rocks are steeper. The dun has been defended by a stone wall built on the edge of the hillock, and measures externally some 79 feet from north-west to south-east and about 42 feet across. On the eastern flank a considerable length of the outer face of the wall remains standing about 3 feet in height; though quite broken down along the western flank, which is more rugged and irregular, its position is indicated at several places, and at the south end three large blocks are left in their original places.
The position of the entrance is doubtful, but a row of stones at the southern end may indicate the line of its western wall.
Along the highest part of the interior of the dun, about 6½ feet within the wall on the eastern flank, there is a bank of stones and earth simulating an inner defence, but as the space enclosed by the outer walls is so narrow, it is doubtful if this can have been a wall.
On the plateau below the rocks on the west of the dun there is a number of indefinite foundations of stone buildings.
RCAHMS 1928, visited 31 August 1915
OS map: Skye viii.
