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Cnoc Eibhleach
Dun (Period Unassigned)
Site Name Cnoc Eibhleach
Classification Dun (Period Unassigned)
Alternative Name(s) Pennysearach
Canmore ID 38688
Site Number NR70NW 2
NGR NR 7145 0783
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/38688
- Council Argyll And Bute
- Parish Southend
- Former Region Strathclyde
- Former District Argyll And Bute
- Former County Argyll
NR70NW 2 7145 0783.
NR 7145 0782 Dun. On the summit of Cnoc Eibhleach, a steep-sided rocky ridge that rises to a height of about 55m OD some 185m ENE of Pennysearach farmhouse, there are the slight remains of a dun. Several stretches of the lowest course of the outer face of the wall, which are visible intermittently about 1.5m below the crest-line of the summit, indicate that the dun probably measured about 21.5m by 12m internally. No inner facing-stones survive and only a little of the core material is left, appearing as a thin grass-covered band of small stones about 2m thick. The position of the entrance is uncertain, but it presumably lay somewhere within the broad gap on the W where all traces of the wall have been obliterated. The interior is featureless (information from D Colville, 1960).
RCAHMS 1971, visited 1965
The dun is as described and planned by RCAHMS.
Surveyed at 1:2500.
Visited by OS (JB) 3 October 1977.
