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profusion all around and here and there patches
of primroses were flourishing about the mossy roots
of the birch trees. A few hundred yards down
the road I met a worthy who assured me
that the chamber of the cairn was the red

[Margin] O.S. [Ordnance Survey] 23.

priests church! The grave & stone of the
Sagairt Ruadh is as described. My next object

[Margin] O.S. [Ordnance Survey] 22.

was Cladh Rifagil. It is on a knoll near
the lodge but none of the stones visible bore
any artificial markings. Earlier I visited
Cladh Langdale with the same result.
A mile or so further on brought me to the croft
below Dun Kealmie on the Carnachaidh burn.
The crofter’s son a nice youth in service at the
Rifagil lodge, came & helped me to measure.

[Margin] O.S. [Ordnance Survey] 52.

The broch is an absolute ruin and has been
greatly pillaged for stones, so much so that
I had great difficulty in finding even the
outlines of the wall. Neither the entrance nor
any feature remain visible. It occupies a
splendid situation on the end of a spur
of Craig Kealmie about 100 ft. [feet] above the
burn to which the slope is very steep. The
walls are 14 ft [feet] thick, Int. [Interior] diameter about (?) 30 ft [feet]
(Though I took this measurement I have not noted it)
On the haugh to the N. [North] is a remarkable

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