Monument record 1295 - CNOC A'CHAISTEAL, ENSAY

NF98NE 2 9813 8678.

(NF 9810 8676) Castle (NR) (Site of)
OS 6"map, Inverness-shire, 2nd ed., (1903)

Cnoc a Chaisteil (Castle Hill) said to be the site of an old castle. No trace of this building is visible but on a rocky knoll (rising c.15ft and 36ft across) is a curved mound, possibly the remains of the wall of a dun.
RCAHMS 1928.

This is not a dun but the heavily robbed remains of a turf-covered cairn, about 15.0m in diameter and surviving to a maximum height of 1.5m, situated on the summit of Cnoc a' Chaisteal, at NF 9813 8678. The stones have been removed mainly from the southern half of the cairn. Re-surveyed at 1/10,000.
Visited by OS (N K B) 4 July 1969.

RCAHMS, 1928, The RCAHMCS 9th Report & Inventory: Outer Hebrides, Skye and the Small Isles, 44, No. 139 (Bibliographic reference). SWE5587.