Dun A’ Chaisteil

Nearest town:
Lochgilphead (17km NE)
OS reference:
NR71377794
OS sheet:
62
Latitude:
55° 56' 23.97 N
Longitude:
5° 39' 41.22 W
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Image of Dun A’ Chaisteil by drewbhoy

Scant remains of a wall on the east, the natural defence probably good enough.

Image credit: drew/AMJ
drewbhoy
drewbhoy Apr 18, 2024
Image of Dun A’ Chaisteil by drewbhoy

Seems unbelievable, to me, that people do these things.

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drewbhoy
drewbhoy Apr 18, 2024
Image of Dun A’ Chaisteil by drewbhoy

The west wall, somewhat ruined by these stupid marker cairns. There is a huge caravan site at Castle Sween which probably doesn’t help.

Image credit: drew/AMJ
drewbhoy
drewbhoy Apr 18, 2024

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Dun A’ Chaisteil

drewbhoy
drewbhoy Jul 3, 2024

From Dun Na Doide I headed, north-east, back to road and jumped the fence near to concrete structures and headed to the pointy hill in front. It’s a reasonably steep climb with glorious views. I approached from the south west, don’t approach from the south east unless you bring climbing gear.

Sadly a plague of marker cairns has broken out on the Loch Sween side of the dun / fort, up to 30 according to Canmore. Directly below is Castle Sween, a cairn and a huge caravan site. No guessing who put up these stupid cairns.

The dun started life as a 17m wide site but over the years it increased to 36m by 15m, an oval shape. Well built walls survive in the south west, almost 2m high, on the east a small rubble wall remains. Also on the west a tumbled down wall offered further protection.

Canmore doesn’t offer a solution to entrance, I think it was in the south west but I guess we’ll never know unless some serious ‘digs’ take place.

Fantastic site, but why oh why build these stupid markers cairns.

Visited 08/04/2024.

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