Places to visit

Dun Ringill

Dun Ringill by Bryanmackinnon and courtesy of wikimedia commons.

This is an Iron Age Hillfort hollow drystone wall structure known as a Broch thought to date from the 1st Century BC. The site also served as a fourteenth century residence for the MacKinnons. The site is on the peninsula of Strathaird in the southwest of Skye/An t-Eilean Sgitheanach and is to the east from Kirkibost overlooking Loch Slapin.

Dun Sgathaich

Sgàthach an Eilean Sgitheanach - legendary Scottish warrior

Dun Sgathaich Castle also known as Duncaith Castle is a ruined castle on a rocky headland on the coast of the Isle of Skye, Scotland (Scottish Gaelic: An t-Eilean Sgitheanach, Alba). The remains of the curtain wall can be seen, but few of the internal structures. They possibly date to the 13th century, but the castle was built on the site of an older fortification. In Celtic legend it is said the rock and castle takes it's name from the legendary warrior queen Sgathaich and the Irish hero Cu Chulainn came here to learn the arts of war. 

Caisteal Maol

Caisteal Maol

This was built by the MacKinnon's in the late fifteenth century. This ruined castle sits on a headland above the village of Kyleakin/Caol Acain on the east coast of the Isle of Skye/An t-Eilean Sgitheanach across the bridge from Kyle of Lochalsh/Caol Loch Aillse.

Armadale Castle - Caisteal Armadail

Armadale Castle by John Preston Neale (1780–1847) and engraved by John Rogers (circa 1808-circa 1888).

This is a ruined country house and former home of the MacDonalds. The ruined mansion house built in 1815 replaced an earlier building but was abandoned in the early twentieth century. The house is in the Clan MacDonald Skye 20,000 acre estate which houses the Museum of the Isles. The Centre is in the Sleat Peninsula in the south of Skye/An t-Eilean Sgitheanach close to Armadal.

Kisimul Castle - Caisteal Chiosmuil

Kisimul Castle image courtesy of Visit Scotland

Kisimul Castle (Scottish Gaelic: Caisteal Chiosmuil) is located on a small island off Castlebay, Barra, Outer Hebrides, Scotland (Scottish Gaelic: Bàgh a' Chaisteil, Eilean Bharraigh, Na h-Eileanan Siar, Alba). This is the former seat of the Clan MacNeil and probably dates back to the fifteenth century. Within the curtain wall of this well preserved castle are the remains of structures including a tower.

Kildonan Museum - Taigh Tasgaidh Chill Donnain

Clanranald Armorial Stone image courtesy of Kildonan Museum

This museum, owned by the South Uist Historical Trust and the Kildonan Centre, is a heritage and cultural facility. The museum gives an historical overview of South Uist/Uibhist a Deas from pre-history to the eighteenth century. South Uist has numerous archaeological sites. The Kildonan Centre also has a craft shop and café and is located on the main A865 north from Daliburgh www.kildonanmuseum.co.uk and is open from April until October. 

Borve Castle - Caisteal Bhuirgh

Borve Castle 20090609 from north-west by Otter and courtesy of wikimedia commons

Borve Castle (Scottish Gaelic: Caisteal Bhuirgh) is a ruined 14th-century tower house, located at the south-west of the island of Benbecula, Outer Hebrides, Scotland (Scottish Gaelic: Beinn nam Fadhla or Beinn na Faoghla, Na h-Eileanan Siar, Alba).

Clach an Truishal - Truiseil

This is a large standing stone about twenty feet in height located off the A857 north from Barabhas south of Siadhar on the northwest coast of Lewis (Scottish Gaelic: Leòdhas).

Dun Carloway - Dùn Chàrlabhaigh

Dun Carloway

These are the well preserved remains of a Broch with the thick walls with stairway and chambers in the hollow surrounding a courtyard of about twenty-five feet in diameter. The site is located southwest from Carloway /Carlabhagh off the A858 north from Callanish/Callanais.

Bosta Beach - Bostadh

Bosta Iron Age House courtesy of interior Bernera Historical Society Facebook page.

Bosta Beach is located in the north of Great Bernera (Scottish Gaelic: Beàrnaraigh Mòr) an island in the Outer Hebrides, Scotland (Scottish Gaelic: Na h-Eileanan Siar, Alba). The island is connected to the north-west coast of Lewis (Scottish Gaelic: Leòdhas) by a bridge. During storms in 1993 shifting sands revealed  stonework. Subsequent excavations in 1996 uncovered a series of well preserved houses that would have been occupied in the 6th - 9th centuries AD.  A replica Iron Age house matching those now buried is sited nearby.

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