Monument record 895 - EILEAN A'GHALLAIN 1, LOCH AN EILEAN, GRIMINISH, NORTH UIST

NF77NW 1 7483 7589.

(NF 7483 7589) Remians of a circular building on the smaller island in Loch an Eilein, named Eilean a 'Ghallain. A paved entrance was found on the east side opposite the causeway and the interior seems to have contained several minor erections. A submerged causeway, 40 yards long, connects the dun with the eastern side of the loch.
Finds included a few fragments of pottery and bones, one or two hammer-stones, some rounded quartz pebbles and a broken whetstone.
E Beveridge 1911.

This site is inaccessible and could not be investigated.
Visited by OS (J T T) 21 June 1965.

Erskine Beveridge, 1911, North Uist: its archaeology and topography, 197, No. 65 (Bibliographic reference). SWE12876.

RCAHMS, 1928, The RCAHMCS 9th Report & Inventory: Outer Hebrides, Skye and the Small Isles, 61, No. 192 (Bibliographic reference). SWE5587.