Monument record 723 - DUN BUIDHE, EOCHAR, SOUTH UIST

NF74NE 4 7735 4629.

(NF 7735 4629) Dun Buidhe (NR)
OS 6"map, Inverness-shire, 2nd ed., (1904)

Dun Buidhe occupies a slight knoll, almost surrounded by marshy ground. Listed as a probable broch, the structure was in a ruinous state in 1915 and late buildings and enclosure walls had encroached upon it. The mound was about 9ft high and the dun had a diameter of 54ft over a wall 12 1/2ft wide where it was visible. A lintel stone of a doorway leading into a chamber or passage was seen in the north-east front.
RCAHMS 1928.

Dun Buidhe, a probable broch is as described above. The lintel stone appears to be over the entrance and on either side of the entrance are traces of galleries. The wall, which is now 1.0m high, is best preserved on the outer face of the west side, where it is constructed of large, roughly faced stones, still three courses high.
Re-surveyed at 1/2500.
Visited by OS (R D) 18 May 1965.

RCAHMS, 1928, The RCAHMCS 9th Report & Inventory: Outer Hebrides, Skye and the Small Isles, 108, No. 373 (Bibliographic reference). SWE5587.