Monument record 140 - LOCH AN DUIN, DUN CARLOWAY SCHOOL, LEWIS

NB13NE 5 1975 3990.

(NB 1975 3990) Dun (LB)
OS 6'map, (1965)

This dun consists of a stone rampart built round the margin of a small island.
The exterior diameter NW-SE is 46' and from NE-SW is 36'. On the western side the outer facing of the wall, which seems to have been at least 6' thick, still shows in places a height of about 4' in position. RCAHMS 1928, visited 1914.

This dun is now a tumbled heap of stones, heavily over-grown with heather, at the N end of a small island. No wall faces are visible, and there is no sign of the entrance. The island is connected to the shore on the N by the ruins of a causeway c.16.0m long.
Revised at 1/10,000.
Visited by OS (A A) 30 June 1969.

The adjacent school is now, and has been since the 1960s, the Doune Braes Hotel. MML 12.10.99

To ... owners of the Monument being Dun situated at Loch an Dunain in the Island of Lewis as shown coloured red on the annexed plan being part of part of the lands of Carloway ...
... the Secretary of State hereby gives notice that it is his intention to include the Monument above specified in a list of monuments ...
Schedule, 26.1.72

RCAHMS, 1928, The RCAHMCS 9th Report & Inventory: Outer Hebrides, Skye and the Small Isles, 22, No. 76 (Bibliographic reference). SWE5587.