Achadh Nam Bard

Also known as:
Kensaleyre
Nearest town:
Uig (13km NW)
OS reference:
NG426506
OS sheet:
23
Latitude:
57° 28' 20.93 N
Longitude:
6° 17' 37.82 W
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Image of Achadh Nam Bard (Standing Stone / Menhir) by markj99

Achadh Nam Bard Standing Stone viewed from SE, Dun Fada in the background.

Image credit: Mark Johnstone
markj99
markj99 Oct 25, 2021
Image of Achadh Nam Bard (Standing Stone / Menhir) by markj99

Achadh Nam Bard Cairn (Foreground) and Standing Stone (Central) viewed from NW.

Image credit: Mark Johnstone
markj99
markj99 Oct 25, 2021
Image of Achadh Nam Bard (Standing Stone / Menhir) by drewbhoy

Looking north east over the top of the cairn, for a fleeting moment I thought I saw Les Hamilton scampering on top the hills :-)

Image credit: drew/A/B
drewbhoy
drewbhoy Jul 29, 2019
Image of Achadh Nam Bard (Standing Stone / Menhir) by drewbhoy

The cairn is in the middle of the pic, no more than 20m from the stone Achadh Nam Bard. Slightly to left, on the photo, is a nasty, hidden, water filled hole which I promptly fell into.

Image credit: drew/A/B
drewbhoy
drewbhoy Jul 29, 2019

Articles

Achadh Nam Bard

drewbhoy
drewbhoy Jul 30, 2019

Achadh Nam Bard Cairn NG42565 50642

From the Kensalyre Standing Stone I headed over increasingly soggy ground to the cairn which sits a short distance from were I’d started.

It is a small cairn being around 4.5m wide and is more than 0.5m at best in height. The open cist mentioned by Canmore probably still exists but is covered to much in heather to make out clearly. They are right in saying that a kerb does surround the edge.

One thing they don’t mention is the water filled hole I fell into, well camouflaged, just to the south of the cairn.

Achadh Nam Bard Standing Stone NG42630 50581

The wee, emphasis on wee, standing stone only sits at a height of less than 1m. Like all the other sites here it has tremendous views all round, the only eyesore being the passing traffic.

Grid refs are to avoid confusion.

Visited 19/7/2019

Achadh Nam Bard

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CARL Aug 21, 2013

Visited 29.7.13

Best place to park is near the turn off and a quick hop over the fence and you are up close and personal with the standing stone. Not that there is much in the way of standing. The stone is little more than a square stone sticking out the heather.

Just to the north of the stone is a Cairn. This can be easily seen as a heather covered mound.

Not much else to say really.

Achadh Nam Bard

Hob
Hob Aug 18, 2005

This is a good contender for the title of ‘smallest standing stone’.

Or mebbe not. Could it actually be a giant stone, over 6ft tall buried in the peat so that only the tip is showing? Well, OK, fair enough, probably not.

It is fairly close to the road, with only a small wire fence to hop over, and there’s a cairn about 80m to the NNW. So at least that’s something.

Miscellaneous

Achadh Nam Bard
Standing Stone / Menhir
Hob
Hob Aug 18, 2005

According to RCAHMS, this diminutive stone is in an old churchyard. I didn’t notice any sign of a church, possibly the traces are buried in the undergrowth, but it’s interesting to see a church with a standing stone and a cairn. Nice inference of continuity.

Sites within 20km of Achadh Nam Bard

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