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Dun Mhuirich

Lochgilphead, Argyll

Large image (668x456 - 61k) A view of the hillock from the south. Part of the dun wall is just visible at the top of the hillock in the gap between the trees.
Large image (663x448 - 75k) Approaching from the north. The entrance through the lower wall is visible as the stonework just left of the centre of the picture. The dun proper risees beyond the lower wall.
Large image (691x448 - 92k) Standing on the dun walls looking north. The internal part of the dun is to the right of the picture and filled with ferns. Part of the remains of one of the internal buildings is visible to the centre-right of the picture.
Large image (686x456 - 89k) The remains of the western dun wall, looking north.
Large image (456x658 - 62k) Looking from the dun wall southeast across Linne Mhuirich to the distand Loch Sween.
Large image (668x448 - 80k) Remains of the southern dun wall, looking northwest.
Large image (689x448 - 54k) Remains of the western dun wall, looking east.
Large image (691x456 - 72k) The eastern cliff and southern dun wall, looking north.
Large image (668x448 - 90k) The western dun wall, looking south.

This small fort, probably Iron Age, stands on top of a small steep hillock on the shore of Linne Mhuirich which provides open water to Loch Sween then the sea. At the base of the steep cliff face to the east, boulders have been set to form a wharf and jetties.

Large portions of the main wall of the dun are well preserved, although much of it was overgrown when I visited (as can be seen in the pictures).

Within the dun wall are the remains of several dry-stone buildings, and further walls are lower down the slope with an entrance to the north.

There are many other duns in the area, and other older monuments - such as the standing stones at Fernoch and Barnashaig.

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Find Dun Mhuirich (or the nearest known site) at the Megalithic Portal