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South Uist, Strom Dearg, Am Priosan
Prison (Medieval)
Site Name South Uist, Strom Dearg, Am Priosan
Classification Prison (Medieval)
Alternative Name(s) Prison
Canmore ID 9783
Site Number NF71NE 2
NGR NF 7585 1999
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/9783
- Council Western Isles
- Parish South Uist
- Former Region Western Isles Islands Area
- Former District Western Isles
- Former County Inverness-shire
NF71NE 2 7585 1999.
(NF 7585 1999) Am Priosan (NR)
OS 6"map, Inverness-shire, 2nd ed., (1904)
Am Priosan (Prison) is a dry-stone pear-shaped building on a rock near the western end of Strom Dearg.
The building measures internally 23ft long by 16ft at its widest point. The wall is 3ft high in places and varies from 5 to 6ft in thickness.
RCAHMS 1928, visited 1914.
The prison is as described above.
Visited by OS (N K B) 7 May 1965.
Field Visit (1 September 1914)
Am Priosan ("Prison"), Strom Dearg.
Near the western extremity of Strom Dearg, one of the inner recesses of Lochboisdale, is a rock surmounted by the remains of a drystone building known as Am Priosan. The surrounding ground is now boggy, but before the modern dam was built across Strom Dearg the site was a tidal islet. The building is pear shaped on plan, the pointed end being towards the east. It measures internally 23 feet along the major axis from east to west, and 16 feet in width at its widest part. The wall, which is built of large blocks of stone and in places attains a height of 3 feet, varies from 5 to 6 feet in thickness.
RCAHMS 1928, visited 1 September 1914.
OS map: South Uist lvii.
