Skye, Achadh A'chuirn

Chambered Cairn (?), Achadh a'Chuirn.

On cultivated land at Achadh a'Chuirn, in the township of Waterloo, near Broadford, some 200 yards from the south-east shore of Broadford Bay and about 500 yards south-south-west of Rudh' Achadh a'Chuirn, at an elevation of about 30 feet above sea-level, is a much dilapidated cairn overgrown with grass. It seems to have been circular with a diameter of about 80 feet, and it now shows a height of some 8 feet. The tops of two slabs, 8 feet 3 inches apart, project about 9 inches above the grass slightly to the north of the present centre of the cairn. These may indicate the existence of a ruined chamber.

RCAHMS 1928, visited 26 May 1915.

OS map: Skye xlvi (unnoted).

NG62SE 2 6642 2343.

(NG 6642 2343) Chambered Cairn (NR)

OS 6"map, (1967)

A large and conspicuous, grass-covered round cairn which may be chambered, measuring about 80' in diameter and 8' in height.

Seventeen feet from the NNE edge of the cairn there protrudes a stone 3' long, its long axis lying SE-NW, its NE face exposed to a height of 10". Another stone, 10'6" to the SSW and slightly N of the centre of the mound, is set with its long axis almost parallel. Its top is considerably higher than that of the first stone, but due to the slope of the mound it only projects 10". These two upright stones probably indicate the presence of a chamber.

Information from OS Recorder.

(RCAHMS 1928; A S Henshall 1972).