Monument record 936 - DUN MHIC RAOUILL, LOCH EAVAL, TIGHARY, NORTH UIST

NF77SW 1 7263 7128.

(NF 7263 7128) Dun Mhic Raouill (NAT)
OS 6"map, Inverness-shire, 2nd ed., (1904)

Dun Mhic Raouill, an island in Loch Eaval, is 35 yards in diameter, connected with the shore on the NE by a submerged causeway c. 50 yards in length.
It is surrounded at the water's edge by the traces of a wall, 5ft thick. Within this wall, at an approximate distance of 12ft all round, is a second wall, also 5ft thick, with a diameter of 44ft.
Between this wall and a central structure, and dividing this annular area into at least eight sectors, are walls from 2 to 4ft broad.
The central structure consists of an annular rampart 9ft wide and 24ft in diameter.
All the walls have been systematically robbed of their stones.
"On the W side of the island is a boat-harbour artificially walled in a width of 5 yards and recessed to the extent of c. 6 yards with a shallow bend towards the South.
E Beveridge 1911.

Dun Mhic Raouill is generally as described by Beveridge except that no traces of the causeway, central structure or concentric inner wall can ow be seen. The centre is now occupied by a shapeless mass of stones. Surveyed at 1/2500.
Visited by OS (R D) 27 June 1965.

Erskine Beveridge, 1911, North Uist: its archaeology and topography, 192 (Bibliographic reference). SWE12876.

RCAHMS, 1928, The RCAHMCS 9th Report & Inventory: Outer Hebrides, Skye and the Small Isles, 65, No. 205 (Bibliographic reference). SWE5587.