Monument record 1196 - DUN AONAIS, LOCH AONGHAIS, NORTH UIST

NF87SE 4 8560 7381.

(NF 8560 7381) Dun Aonais (NR) (Site of)
OS 6"map, Inverness-shire, 2nd ed., (1901)

Dun Aonghuis (fort of Angus) occupies the whole of the island on which it stands. The circular island is about 34 yards in diameter over a fairly well preserved wall which surrounds it close to the water's edge. There is a boat-entrance on the NW and a causeway on the E connecting the island to the nearest shore.
Foundations of a building 38ft N-S x 12ft E-W can be traced in the centre (E Beveridge 1911), and the Commission (RCAHMS 1928) describe a smaller one to the SE.
The dun is said to have been occupied by Aonghas Fionn (information from MacKenzie, 'History of the MacDonalds', 225) c. 1516.
E Beveridge 1911; RCAHMS 1928.

Dun Aonais is as described by Beveridge and the Commission. It is probable that the interior buildings are contemporary.
Surveyed at 1/10,560.
Visited by OS (R D) 27 June 1965.

Erskine Beveridge, 1911, North Uist: its archaeology and topography, 223-4 illust. (Bibliographic reference). SWE12876.

RCAHMS, 1928, The RCAHMCS 9th Report & Inventory: Outer Hebrides, Skye and the Small Isles, 68-9, No. 213 (Bibliographic reference). SWE5587.