Dun Mor, Dunamuck

Nearest town:
Lochgilphead (4km SSE)
OS reference:
NR84369242
OS sheet:
55
Latitude:
56° 4' 33.35 N
Longitude:
5° 27' 55.74 W
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Image of Dun Mor, Dunamuck by drewbhoy

Looking south, near the cottage is the chamber cairn.

Image credit: drew/AMJ
drewbhoy
drewbhoy Apr 30, 2025

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Dun Mor, Dunamuck

drewbhoy
drewbhoy Mar 4, 2026

Dun Mor at Dunamuck should have been the first stop after the ruined chamber cairn and the rarely mentioned smaller cairn. Spying the dun from the cairns I headed up track intending to head clockwise from the dun via various fallen and standing stones to end up back at the chamber cairn. A track led to the dun at the Dunamuck farm gate, I thought this would be easy.

Instead I was met by an angry farmer who dished out dog’s abuse for no reason, claiming people did tremendous damage. He pointed back to near the chamber cairn shouting that there were signposts indicating directions to the stones and eventually the dun. I also gave him directions as well.

Back to the chamber cairn, no signpost indicating the way but I knew the various monuments positions and reached Dunamuck North, from there I headed south west towards the dun. The pleasant sun drying out my soaked and muddied legs after landing in a ditch.

It is an impressive location for the dun, good all round views, a lot of the south end Kilmartin monuments can be seen.

I climbed up from the east and entered the site on the north side. Remnants of a once massive wall have been reduced to a 4.5m wide turf covered mound. Some stones poke through giving an idea of the dun’s oval shape which is 19.5m north to south being almost 17m wide.

A tremendous day wandering about the various monuments. On the way back to the A816 I headed back to the chamber cairn without further incident.

Visited 08/04/2025.

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