Barnluasgan

Nearest town:
Lochgilphead (7km E)
OS reference:
NR78719113
OS sheet:
55
Latitude:
56° 3' 42.18 N
Longitude:
5° 33' 18.06 W
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Image of Barnluasgan (Stone Fort / Dun) by drewbhoy

The wall swings from the north onto the east, the steepest of the sides.

Image credit: drew/AMJ
drewbhoy
drewbhoy Apr 17, 2023
Image of Barnluasgan (Stone Fort / Dun) by drewbhoy

There isn’t much of an east wall, perhaps there wasn’t one.

Image credit: drew/AMJ
drewbhoy
drewbhoy Apr 17, 2023

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Barnluasgan

drewbhoy
drewbhoy Jun 7, 2023

After climbing back down from Druim An Duin I walked on the B8025 heading south towards the next hairpin in the road, then headed north on another road kindly provided probably by the forestry people. Thanks to Storm Arwen a lot of these tracks have appeared, lots of tarred roads have been improved or strengthened due to the volume of lorries.

I took the west track and followed it until I was almost directly below the dun. Instead of trees a deer fence provides the main obstacle, that didn’t prove a problem as luckily animals of some kind had made a gap under the fence wide enough so I could crawl through.

A short walk leads to the much damaged site which is slightly oval shaped being 18m by 15m. Traces of turf wall remain in the east and west, to the north and south the defences are better preserved. A dry stane dyke that goes through the site has probably upcycled stones from the dun.

A bit of a ‘what if’ site but worth a visit.

Visited 04/04/2023.

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