32186: DUN MHIC PHI, LEWIS – BUILDING (Undated), DUN? (Undated), SITE (Undated)
Summary:
BUILDING (Undated)
DUN? (Undated)
SITE (Undated)
Possible island dun, sub-rectangular building
Location:
NB 2969 1075
Full description:
NB21SE 1 2969 1075.
(NB 2969 1075) Dun Mhic Phi (NAT)
OS 6"map, (1965)
A small ruin on the summit of a small island, in which lived a man named MacPhail at an early period.
Name Book 1851.
Dun Mhic Phi, a rocky tidal islet surmounted by the footings of a crude sub-rectangular building of no great age. Local tradition asserts that the island was the refuge of MacPhail, an outlaw. There is no suggestion of a dun.
Visited by OS (N K B) 26 June 1969.
References:
Original Name Books of the Ordnance Survey, Name Books of the Ordnance Survey. Book No. 121, 21
Acknowledgement:
Information provided by Western Isles Council Sites & Monuments Record, January 2006.
Record Location
Details
- Record Type:
- Historical or Archaeological Site
- Type Of Site:
- Site; Building; Dun
- SMRRecord ID:
- MWE4139
- Record Maintained by:
- CEP