Druim Na Cille

NN72SW 1 7375 2429 to 7380 2428.

(NN 7375 2432) A cairn circle, about 40ft diameter and 4ft maximum height, is about seventy yards east of the shepherd's cottage at Drumnakill, north of Dunira House. Several large blocks are exposed on the top.

Described by Gow as a raised enclosure, 25-30ft diameter, with a turf-covered wall or rampart 3 or 4ft high surrounding it. Traditionally it was a burying ground for unbaptised infants.

(NN 7377 2432) About twenty-five yards to the east is a prominent cup-marked boulder and lying in an almost straight line a few yards to the south there are five other blocks. These are said to have been set in a ring around the cup- marked boulder but this cannot now be confirmed.

F R Coles 1911; J M Gow 1888

At NN 7375 2429 are the remains of a bracken-and-turf-covered circular cairn (the cairn-circle described by Coles), 19.0m in diameter and 1.7m max-height. The top has been levelled and is enclosed by an old sheep fold, 11.6m in diameter. Some large boulders lie at the base on the east side. The cup-marked boulder, at NN 7380 2428, measures 1.7m long by 1.7m broad and 1.0m high. On its top are at least 15 cup-marks, some of which may be due to weathering. Nothing can be made of the stones lying to the south.

Surveyed at 6" scale.

Visited by OS (WDJ) 19 November 1968

The cairn has been destroyed in the process of land improvement. The large boulders were dragged to the field boundary some 50m to the NE where the impressive cup-marked stone can still be viewed.

J Sherriff 1979