Monument record 657 - SGEIR GHLAS, LOCH NAM FAOILEANN, SOUTH UIST

NF72SE 1 7515 2091.

(NF 7515 2091) Sgeir Ghlas (Dun) (NR)
OS 6"map, Inverness-shire, 2nd ed., (1904)

The ruins of a dun occupy entirely the islet, Sgeir Ghlas. A mound of stones rises 4 ft. above the water level. There were indications of a causeway to the eastern shore of the loch in 1914. Blundell noted that in 1909 it was "unpassable except as a trial of skill".
RCAHMS 1928; F O Blundell 1913.

Sgeir Ghlas is now almost completely submerged except for five small piles of stones: there are now no identifiable remains of the dun. Fragments of the causeway are still visible.
Revised at 1/2500
Visited by OS (R D) 8 May 1965.

F O Blundell, 1912-13, Proc Soc Antiq Scot, 294 fig. 17 (Bibliographic reference). SWE1455.

RCAHMS, 1928, The RCAHMCS 9th Report & Inventory: Outer Hebrides, Skye and the Small Isles, 121, No. 422 (Bibliographic reference). SWE5587.