33022: DUN GORMSUIL, MACHAIR CARNISH, LEWIS – FISH PROCESSING SITE (Post Medieval – 1540 AD to 1900 AD)

Summary:

FISH PROCESSING SITE (Post Medieval – 1540 AD to 1900 AD)
Displaced name referring to SMR 7124, & fish processing site

Location:

NB 0321 3298

Full description:

NB03SW 8 0321 3298.

(NB 0321 3298) Dun (NAT)
OS 6’map, (1965)

A small prominent rocky promontory. It is connected with the shore by a narrow neck of rock and sand, over which a rude stone bank or pier has been built to accommodate small boats in their landing. The attempt to build a pier has been abandoned. There is no Castle or Fort on it (Name Book 1851).
Thomas calls this site Dun Gormsuil but says he has no information concerning it.
Name Book 1851; F W L Thomas 1890.

There is no trace of a dun on Dun Gormsuil. The rock has been used as a fishing station and the stone built pier remains, together with traces of a small rectangular building about 6.0m long.
Visited by OS (R L) 28 June 1969.

References:

Original Name Books of the Ordnance Survey, Name Books of the Ordnance Survey. Book No. 57, 63
Thomas, F. W. L.. 1890. ‘On the duns of the Outer Hebrides’, Archaeol Scot. Part No 5. 395

Acknowledgement:

Information provided by Western Isles Council Sites & Monuments Record, January 2006.

See also a recent article by Dave Roberts, Comann Eachdraidh Uig.