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List of names as written | Various modes of spelling | Authorities for spelling | Situation | Description remarks |
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DÙN MÒR | Dun Mhor Dun Mhor Dun Mhor Dùn Mòr |
Sir John Ord Mr. Aitcheson Mr. Thomson Correct Gaelic |
171 | A small but very prominent rocky hillock. |
FORT [Dùn Mòr] | 171 | On its summit is something resembling the foundations of a building or work of art, which Mr. Aitcheson, Land Stewart says that [it] is traditionally handed down as being [the] site of a Castle or tower. The East side is very precipitous, and the [West] is the only side that the top [can] be approached and which appears to have been the entrance, as there [are] 2 small standing stones about 3 or [4] feet high much resembling gate posts [or] at least they would indicate so as they [are] placed in a kind of slack or gap [--] accessible place to the summit. |
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