Monument record 1340 - DUN INNISGALL, CARMINISH, HARRIS

NG08NW 2 0194 8521.

Dun Innisgall: There are slight remains of a dun on the summit of a small tidal island on the N shore of the Sound of Harris, opposite the W end of the township of Carminish. The over-all diameter is c.36ft, and it is connected with the larger, tidal island, which lies outside it
to the W, by a causeway, 26 yards long by 6ft broad (RCAHMS 1928). Several flint arrowheads were turned up near this dun during the period of the Highland Destitution. (F W L Thomas 1890)
F W L Thomas 1890; RCAHMS 1928, visited 1914.

The remains of Dun Innisgall occupy the whole of a rocky tidal islet at NG 0194 8521. It has been severely robbed and only the discontinuous outer wall-face can be seen indicating overall measurements of 16.3m E-W by 15.9m N-S. The wall is best preserved on the S side 2-3 courses high, and here it is laid on the top of outcrop rock, 3.5m above HWMMT. On the NW and E the base courses are at the HWMMT. No internal features survive but the wall must have been at least 3.0m thick. Midden material con- taining pottery sherds is visible in the S wall. A causeway, about 2.0m wide and submerged at high tide, joins the islet to a larger island to the SW. Name still known locally. A nodule of grey flint was picked up on the site.
Visited by OS (N K B) 7 July 1969.

Thomas, F. W. L., 1890, Archaeol Scot, 397 (Bibliographic reference). SWE7756.

RCAHMS, 1928, The RCAHMCS 9th Report & Inventory: Outer Hebrides, Skye and the Small Isles, 44, No. 144 (Bibliographic reference). SWE5587.