Muck, Uchd A' Ghralair
Enclosure (Post Medieval), Marker Cairn(S) (Modern), Peat Stand (Post Medieval)
Site Name Muck, Uchd A' Ghralair
Classification Enclosure (Post Medieval), Marker Cairn(S) (Modern), Peat Stand (Post Medieval)
Canmore ID 291897
Site Number NM47NW 88
NGR NM 40143 79484
NGR Description from NM 40083 79592 to NM 40234 79485
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/291897
- Council Highland
- Parish Small Isles
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Lochaber
- Former County Inverness-shire
NM47NW 88 from 40083 79592 to 40234 79485
A probable peat-stack stance, an enclosure and four marker cairns are situated on a broad saddle to the W of Uchd a' Ghralair. The peat-stack stance (Muck02 367) is built at the S end of the saddle, SW of a boggy gully. Rectangular on plan, it measures 9.2m by 1.7m within a wall comprising no more than a line of large stones up to 0.3m in height. There is a gap 2.2m wide halfway along the SE side. The enclosure (Muck02 366) lies immediately to the S and is subrectangular on plan, measuring 6m by 4m within a wasted stony bank. Two of the marker cairns (Muck02 378, 365), which are of no great age, stand to the NW of the peat-stack stance. Together with another cairn (Muck02 369) to the E and a further possible fourth to the SE (NM 40112 79519), they appear to mark a route up to the summit of Beinn Airein.
(Muck02, 365-7, 369, 378)
Visited by RCAHMS (SDB) 21 May 2002
