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above the loch I passed through a fertile
little haugh fringed in with birch woods, there
are the remains of several little circular huts,
not unlike those I found up the Skelpich burn.
Have they been sheilings? One towards the E [East] end
of the haugh had an Int. [Interior] dia. [diameter] of about 5 ft. [feet]. Another
was somewhat larger. They also are set on low
hillocks. About 80 yds. [yards] further on is another
an oval of 18’ x 6’. It rained and while the heather
was soaking underfoot, the birch branches as I pushed
through, showered their accumulated rain drops on
me from above. I was glad to escape from the glen &
crossing a rough park, to see the Dun before me
at the edge of Loch Ardbhair. It stands on
an isolated rock about [--] ft. [feet] from the mainland
to which it is connected by a rough “roadway”
of boulders now almost severed in the middle. It is
only approachable at low tide (when by good luck
I reached it) and at high water there is little space
between the edge of the rock & the base of the
building. It is circular with an internal diameter
of 24 ft. [feet] and walls 10’.6” thick near the base. The
entrance passage is to the S. [South] and is only 2 ft. [feet] wide
in the interior, (the exterior not measurable & remains to height of 3’.6” on left). Of the
outside walls only one or two of the lowest courses of the building
remain visible in places and the rest is concealed by

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