Monument record 910 - CAISTEAL ODAIR, NORTH UIST

NF77NW 8 7317 7680.

(NF 7317 7680) Caisteal Odair (NR)
OS 6"map, Inverness-shire, 2nd ed., (1904)

Caisteal Odair - promontory fort (R W Feachem 1963). Its defences consist of a stone rampart c.120 yards long and 7 to 9ft thick which cuts off the outer and higher portion of the headland. This wall can still be traced along its 'exterior base' and is pierced towards the south by an entrance passage 14ft long and 5ft wide, partially blocked at its inner end by a group of large stones, some still standing. North of these and close to the outer rampart are the ruins of structures. (E Beveridge 1911)
The remains of several circular stone foundations lie outside the fortified area but nothing is known about their connection with the fort. (R W Feachem 1963)
E Beveridge 1911; R W Feachem 1963.

Caisteal Odair is generally as described above. The only foundation visible outside the fort is an oval enclosure of no great age.
Surveyed at 1/2500.
Visited by OS (J T T) 21 June 1965.

Erskine Beveridge, 1911, North Uist: its archaeology and topography, 195-6 photo (Bibliographic reference). SWE12876.

RCAHMS, 1928, The RCAHMCS 9th Report & Inventory: Outer Hebrides, Skye and the Small Isles, 60, No. 190 (Bibliographic reference). SWE5587.

R W Feachem, 1963b, A Guide to Prehistoric Scotland, 140-1 (Bibliographic reference). SWE2141.