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Skye, Dun Ela
Dun (Prehistoric)
Site Name Skye, Dun Ela
Classification Dun (Prehistoric)
Alternative Name(s) Ila
Canmore ID 11547
Site Number NG60NW 1
NGR NG 6464 0569
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/11547
- Council Highland
- Parish Sleat
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Skye And Lochalsh
- Former County Inverness-shire
NG60NW 1 6464 0569.
(NF 6464 0569) Dun Ela (NAT)
OS 6"map, Inverness-shire, 2nd ed., (1903)
On the shore about 400 yards SSW of Ostaig House is a flat-topped rock tapering away towards the land in a gradually narrowing ridge and rising abruptly some 25ft above the strand. The summit it occupied by the remains of a Dun Ila, a small fort of quadrilateral shape, measuring internally some 46ft NW-SE and 31ft across the widest part, which is next the sea. The remains of its wall, built on the edge of the rock, are traceable all around except on the NE flank. The best preserved parts are towards the land to the NW, where it shows a breadth of 9ft and a height of 4ft 6ins above the interior, and at the W corner, where it is 3ft 6ins high.
RCAHMS 1928.
Dun Ela, a dun, correctly described by RCAHMS.
Visited by OS (A S P) 17 June 1961.
Field Visit (11 September 1915)
Dun Ila (O.S. Ela), Ostaig.
On the shore about 400 yards south-south-west of Ostaig House is a flat-topped rock tapering away towards the land in a gradually narrowing ridge and rising abruptly some 25 feet above the strand. The summit is occupied by the remains of Dun Ila, a small fort of quadrilateral shape measuring internally some 46 feet from north-west to south-east and 31 feet across at the widest part, which is next the sea. The remains of its wall, built on the edge of the rock, are traceable all round except on the north-eastern flank. The best preserved parts are towards the land to the north-west, where it shows a breadth of 9 feet and a height of 4 feet 6 inches above the interior, and at the western corner, where it is 3 feet 6 inches high.
RCAHMS 1928, visited 11 September 1915.
OS map: Skye lvii.
