Site type DUN
Canmore ID 11558
Site Number NG61NW 2
NGR NG 6151 1612
Council HIGHLAND
Parish STRATH
Former Region HIGHLAND
Former District SKYE AND LOCHALSH
Former County INVERNESS-SHIRE

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Archaeological Notes

NG61NW 2 6151 1612.

(NG 6151 1612) Dun Boreraig (Fort) (NR).
OS 6"map, Inverness-shire, 2nd ed., (1903)

On the N shore of Loch Eishort at Boreraig, some 1 3/4 miles E of Rudha Suisnish, on a small promontory rising about 40ft above the sea level, are the very scanty remains of Dun Boreraig. Of the defences, all that survives is a grass covered stony mound, which on the N or landward side measures 13ft broad, 6 1/2ft high on the inside and 3ft on the outside, and which, though greatly reduced in size, can be traced a short distance along the E and W flanks. The enceinte, which is rectangular with rounded corners, measures 66ft along the longer axis from N to S and 41ft from E to W. The stones from this dun have doubtless been removed to build an adjoining township, long deserted.
RCAHMS 1928, visited 15 May 1914.

Dun Boreraig is as described by RCAHMS. It is not a broch.
Visited by OS (C F W) 23 June 1961.

RCAHMS (1928) The Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments and Constructions of Scotland. Ninth report with inventory of monuments and constructions in the Outer Hebrides, Skye and the Small Isles, Edinburgh
Page(s): 212, No. 656 Held at RCAHMS A.1.1.INV(9)