Monument record 46 - LOCH AN DUIN, TARANSAY

NB00SW 6 0216 0127.

(NB 0216 0127) Dun (NR)
OS 6"map, Inverness-shire, 2nd ed., (1903)

The remains of a dun occupy an islet connected with the shore of Loch an Duin by a causeway about 35 yards long. The building is D-shaped with walls varying from 4 to 6ft in height, rising abrupt- ly from the water's edge.
Mr Wedderspoon, a member of the Inverness Field Club, (see F O Blundell 1913) who surveyed the building before 1913, considered that the island was artificial and that the building was of much later date.
RCAHMS 1928, visited 17 July 1914; F O Blundell 1913; F W L Thomas 1890.

A D-shaped dun, generally as described and planned by the RCAHMS.
There is no sign of an entrance but it is probably in the NW side, obscured by tumble and vegetation. A short stretch of a medial stabilising wall is visible in the centre of the south end of this same wall.
Visited by OS (A A) 7 July 1969.

Mediaeval (?) buildings inserted into the structure. MML June 2000

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

F O Blundell, 1912-13, Proc Soc Antiq Scot, 300 illust. (Bibliographic reference). SWE1455.

RCAHMS, 1928, The RCAHMCS 9th Report & Inventory: Outer Hebrides, Skye and the Small Isles, 38, No. 117 plan fig. 91, illust. fig. 99 (Bibliographic reference). SWE5587.