'Palace An Righ'

NN75NW 2 717 593 to 7159 5937

(Name: NN 717 593) Palace an Righ (NR) (Site of)

(Ordnance Survey Name Book [ONB] destroyed)

OS 6" map (1900)

(NN 7161 5941) Circular enclosure, very ruinous, probably prehistoric. Badly robbed of stones for wall building.

(NN 7167 5947) Rectangular banked enclosure.

(NN 7164 5944) Two rectangular house foundations, one parallel, one at right angles to contour.

Information from M E C Stewart, 2 February 1956.

Nothing was found at the published site "Palace an Righ", but at NN 7159 5937, on a W-facing slope amongst a tumbled mass of rough stone, can be detected the vague line of a circular wall composed of large boulders but without any obvious faces. The interior measures 17.0m in diameter and contains a pronounced terrace which may be the result of an attempt at levelling the site. The walls are 4.0m thick and in the S is a gap 2.3m wide, completely devoid of stones. Its purpose cannot be determined, but it may be the remains of a homestead (NN75NW 6 - ?Dun, may refer). Nearby are the remains of four rectangular buildings, averaging 7.7m x 2.9m internally with stone walls 0.7m high, and a stone walled enclosure.

Visited by OS (JP) 23 September 1969

The alleged circular enclosure is a confused jumble of small stones and boulders with an arc of rubble bounding the NE side. With imagination it could be construed as an oval enclosure some 18.0m N-S by 15.0m E-W internally. However, there are no indications at all of walling or built faces, and it seems more likely to be an amalgam of natural boulders and field cleared stones possibly contemporary with the rectangular buildings in the vicinity.

There is nothing to indicate that this is "Palace an Righ", which name is positioned to the SE on the old 6" on rising ground in a pasture field.

Visited by OS (AA) 16 October 1974.