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greatly altered it. The cliff scenery
here is magnificent unfortunately a
mist hung over the sky making the scenery
gloomy and depressing.

[Margin] O.S. [Ordnance Survey] 2.
An Dun.

On the E. [East] side of the Balligil burn on a
slight promontory some 200' above the sea
are the indefinite foundations of a fort or
castle. A parapet some 6' in thickness has
been built round the edge of the cliff and some
15' back from it at the centre of the curve
are the foundations of a structure measuring
interiorly about 20' x 8'. There are no remains
of mortar visible and the form and character
of the construction is not obvious.

[Margin] O.S. [Ordnance Survey] 3.

At the E [East] side of the base of the Rudha
na Cloiche and about 1/2 m. [mile] W. [West] of Portskerra
between two goes that pierce the land with
precipitous cliffs is a long promontory very
difficult of access along a hog-backed ridge
some 50' in length and for about
one half that distance 2' to 3' in width. Beyond
that a sheep track circles round a grassy
hillock onto a fresh green plateau beyond.
Round the edge of this runs an earthern
rampart or parapet but in the depressions
in the interior there are no signs of

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