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Dun An Rudha Bhuide

Stone Fort / Dun

<b>Dun An Rudha Bhuide</b>Posted by drewbhoyImage © drew/A/B
Also known as:
  • Claggain Bay
  • Ardtalla

Nearest Town:Campbeltown (42km SE)
OS Ref (GB):   NR46615407 / Sheet: 60
Latitude:55° 42' 49.05" N
Longitude:   6° 2' 4.83" W

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Go to the end of the A846 at Ardbeg and go straight onto the minor road. Keep going until it ends as it heads north east. Jump over the gate and head north east, climbing slowly. After about a 1/4 mile Dun An Rubha Bhuide will be seen.

This is a tremendous fort with three lines of wall for defence and a natural harbour just to the north. Each wall is over 2m wide and on the outer, a gap which I stumbled through is probably the entrance. Like a lot of forts here, walls have been built to fill in natural defences.

Also there is, like a few other forts I visited, higher ground nearby i.e the direction I came from. So not much protection from the north, hence the walls.

But this is a beautiful place and its the end of the road (tarred).

Visited 30/7/2018.
drewbhoy Posted by drewbhoy
7th November 2018ce

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drewbhoy Posted by drewbhoy
7th November 2018ce