Islay, Brahunisary
Building (Post Medieval)
Site Name Islay, Brahunisary
Classification Building (Post Medieval)
Alternative Name(s) Ily 5
Canmore ID 37542
Site Number NR34NE 2
NGR NR 37672 46206
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
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- Council Argyll And Bute
- Parish Kildalton And Oa
- Former Region Strathclyde
- Former District Argyll And Bute
- Former County Argyll
NR34NE 2 3765 4620.
NR 376 462. The remains of a cairn are in rough grazing at just over 150ft OD. All that remains is a roughly oval mound, measuring about
40ft NW-SE by 15ft and about 3ft high. It has been greatly robbed and there is no indication of its original shape or size. It consists of large irregular stones and is mainly grass-covered.The only notable feature is a large rectangular block of stone, set on its edge, near the middle of the SW side about 4ft within the cairn edge. This stone is 7ft long, 1ft thick, and projects 2 1/2ft. The tip of another upright but smaller stone can be seen in line with it at its NW end. These stones might be the side stones of a ruined Clyde-type chamber.
A S Henshall 1972, visited 1962; S Piggott and C M Piggott 1948.
NR 3765 420. The feature described by Henshall (1972) is not a cairn and it appears to be the disturbed remains of a building.
It is situated on a level terrace in rough pasture and is 12.0m N-S by 6m over turf-covered walling 1.0m wide and 0.7m high. The entrance was probably in the east side where the walling is now fragmented. The large rectangular stone is as described but its purpose is not apparent. The origin and purpose of this building is not clear but it does not seem to be of any great age.
Visited by OS (TRG) 1 June 1978.
Field Visit (June 1975)
Immediately SE of the approach road to Kilbride, and 230m S of Brahunisary, there is a large grass-grown accumulation of stones, most of them of large size, spread over an area measuring 12m by 4.5m, and standing up to 1m in height. There seems to be no evidence to support the suggestion (Henshall 1972, 435) that this may be a severely robbed chambered cairn of Clyde type; it may rather represent the foundations of a roughly rectangular building of no great age.
RCAHMS 1984, visited June 1975
