An Sithean Chambered Cairn View all content for An Sithean

"Aant Sithe, a green mound close to the roadway on the right-hand side. This, as its name implies, is a fairy place. On clear moonlight nights the fairies can be seen dancing on the grass that surrounds the central stone and anyone approaching quietly and with a receptive mind may hear the wonderful strains of fairy music issuing from the ground. What the mound was before it was a fairy dwelling is something of a mystery. In the centre of the summit stands a large stone, perhaps once a 'standing stone' but now closely resembling a broken tooth. Round it is a ring of grass, and then a ring of stone much over-grown; from this stone ring or circle run causeways (or perhaps old fortificaitons or walls), like the rays of a star, to the low ground around it." - Otta F. Swire, Skye: The Island and its Legends, 1961, p. 219. The OS map identifies An Sithean as a chambered cairn, also recording some hut circles to the east of the site.

Posted by TomBo 28th June 2004ce

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