Lismore, Balygrundle South
Burial Cairn (Bronze Age)
Site Name Lismore, Balygrundle South
Classification Burial Cairn (Bronze Age)
Alternative Name(s) Dun Vamha Chradha
Canmore ID 23001
Site Number NM83NW 1
NGR NM 84019 39587
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
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- Council Argyll And Bute
- Parish Lismore And Appin (Argyll And Bute)
- Former Region Strathclyde
- Former District Argyll And Bute
- Former County Argyll
NM83NW 1 8402 3958
(NM 8402 3958) Cairn (NR)
OS 10,000 map, (1975).
Standing on a rocky ridge SSE of Balygrundle is a grass-grown cairn measuring 16 metres in diameter and 1.8 metres in height. The top has been levelled and is surmounted by a small modern cairn. Five kerb stones are visible on the south arc of the perimeter.
It was thought to have been possibly a dun (Mitchell 1933) or a broch (OS 6" map, Argyllshire, 2nd ed., 1900).
M E C Mitchell 1933; RCAHMS 1975, visited May 1968.
A cairn as described.
Surveyed at 1:10 000 scale.
Visited by OS (R D), 22 November 1971.
Field Visit (8 July 1943)
On the crest of the next ridge but one S of Dun Mor is a pile of stones, the flat summit of which is 11ft in diameter. No trace of walling is exposed anywhere, and it is difficult to define precisely the boundaries of the artificial accumulation as the limestone outcrops are very deceptive. Still the diameter does not appear to exceed 46ft. The sides of the ridge are only small cliffs 4ft to 5ft high at most, and its end is not precipitous. I do not believe it was intended as a defensive construction; it looks like a cairn.
Visited by RCAHMS 8 July 1943.
OS 6” map (1900) ‘Brough’
Field Visit (May 1968)
There are two cairns situated in broken ground S of Balygrundle farmhouse and within 200 m of the shore.
(1) NM 840 395. One cairn, named Dun Uamha Chradh, stands on a rocky ridge 500 m SSE of Balygrundle at a height of about 35 mOD. Largely grass-grown, it measures 16 m in diameter and 1.8 m in height; the top has been levelled and is surmounted by a small modern cairn. Five kerbstones are visible on the S arc of the perimeter.
RCAHMS 1975, visited May 1968.
