
The mound bearing Dun Tom na h-Uraich seen on the approach from the southwest.
The mound bearing Dun Tom na h-Uraich seen on the approach from the southwest.
This panoramic shot over Dun Tom na h-Uraich shows the dun’s grassy internal hollow, surrounded by low grassy banks, all that remains of its original fortifying walls. The remains of the wartime radar station can be seen on the skyline, atop the hill in the background.
Looking over the remains of the walling of Dun Tom na h-Uraich, towards the sea cliffs to its south.
Only a few stones of its original defences remain on the western side of Dun Tom na h-Uraich.
The view north from Dun Tom na h-Uraich towards the twin sea stacks of Stacan Goblach.
Visited: May 25, 2016
The scant remains of Dun Tom na h-Uraich stand on the very lip of the sea cliffs at the point where the A855 turns west towards Duntulm at the far north of the Trotternish Peninsula.
The site is barely 50 metres northwest of the remains of a prominent stone-built structure—the remains of a wartime radar station—on the summit of Tom na h-Uraich hill: an imposing landmark, seen from the road. Parking is available just a few metres past this, and a good track leads to the top of the hill, a superb lookout point.
Very little of the original stone walling of the dun remains, most of it almost certainly having been robbed in centuries past to build field dykes.