Sruthan Na Cille

Nearest town:
Campbeltown (42km E)
OS reference:
NR37874578
OS sheet:
60
Latitude:
55° 38' 4.86 N
Longitude:
6° 9' 55.87 W
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Image of Sruthan Na Cille (Stone Fort / Dun) by drewbhoy

The east swinging round to the south natural defences.

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drewbhoy
drewbhoy Aug 3, 2018
Image of Sruthan Na Cille (Stone Fort / Dun) by drewbhoy

Looking south west, to the Oa and Port Ellen Bay.

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drewbhoy
drewbhoy Aug 3, 2018
Image of Sruthan Na Cille (Stone Fort / Dun) by drewbhoy

From inside the dun looking east, another couple of steps and its over the edge.

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drewbhoy
drewbhoy Aug 3, 2018
Image of Sruthan Na Cille (Stone Fort / Dun) by drewbhoy

From the north looking east, bits of wall can be seen.

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drewbhoy Aug 3, 2018

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Sruthan Na Cille

drewbhoy
drewbhoy Oct 24, 2018

After a good look round at Druim Nam Madagan we walked a short distance south before heading west, crossing a small burn before encountering thick ferns. I battered my way through to finally approach the dun from the west.

I found the outer wall easily enough by falling flat on my face as I tripped over it. It stands at around 0.5m tall and almost surrounds the crag on which the dun is perched. When I reached the ground I also discovered the wall must have been over 3m wide. However the density of the ferns made judgement hard and underfoot conditions even worse. The east side as well as a wall has the natural defence of a steep cliff.

There is a small wall in the middle of the dun, which I managed to spy before falling over that as well.

Now the dun, to me, seems to be on the wrong hill as there is a higher ridge to the north west so it seems to suggest that this might well be an enclosure, as the OS suggest, or a homestead, as Canmore suggests. I tend to think that it is a dun as it is similar to duns further to the east.

Who’s to say that it isn’t all three.

Visited 29/7/2018.

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