Cnoc Ullinish Chambered Tomb View all content for Cnoc Ullinish

"Dr. Johnson stayed at Ullinish as the guest of Sheriff-Substitute Macleod and while there was shown all the sights of the neighbourhood: Dun Beag, of course, and also the three monoliths or standing stones beyond the house. Local tradition has always maintained that they were erected 'long ago' for burning the dead and this tradition seems to be approximately correct, for a fairly recent find close to these stones was an ancient funerary urn full of ashes." - Otta F. Swire, Skye: The Island and its Legends, 1961, p. 166. The OS map also shows a second chambered cairn at NG336376, and also a souterrain at NG333384.

Posted by TomBo 28th June 2004ce

Comments (0)
You must be logged in to add a comment