Scotland · Region
22 places in Outer Hebrides, from the deepest prehistory to the medieval world.
Sacred place · Prehistoric
Outer Hebrides
Erected around 2750 BC, before Stonehenge, and laid out so that none of its three stone rows actually points at the centre of its own circle.
Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Outer Hebrides
Two massive slabs form the roof of Barpa Langass, with a third slab laid on top of them, capping a stone burial mound on the Isle of North Uist tha…
Fortified place · Medieval
Outer Hebrides
On the machair at the south-west tip of Benbecula, in the Western Isles, the ruined shell of a three-storey tower house stands with its north wall…
Sacred place · Prehistoric
Outer Hebrides
Five stones stand today at Callanish IV, arranged in a pronounced oval measuring 13.3 by 9.5 metres on open moorland southeast of the main Callanis…
Fortified place · Medieval
Outer Hebrides
A ruined castle occupies a small islet off the island of Calbhaigh, at the eastern approaches to Loch Boisdale on South Uist, reached only by a cau…
Sacred place · Prehistoric
Outer Hebrides
On the west side of Lewis, in the village of Ballantrushal, a single grey pillar of stone rises 5.8 metres out of the machair. Clach an Trushal is…
Ancient place · Prehistoric
Outer Hebrides
Cladh Hallan is an ancient settlement on South Uist, notable for mummified bodies that were preserved and later reburied.
Fortified place · Iron Age
Outer Hebrides
Three stone causeways lace across Loch an Sticir on North Uist, carrying a single line of dry ground from the B893 road to a broch (a tall circular…
Fortified place · Iron Age
Outer Hebrides
A thirty-metre stone causeway crosses the water of Loch Bharabhat to reach the islet on which Dun Bharabhat stands, its walls rising above the loch…
Fortified place · Iron Age
Outer Hebrides
On the south side of Dun Carloway the original wall still stands to 9.2 metres, and on the east side sections of the old wall reach close to nine m…
Fortified place · Iron Age
Outer Hebrides
On an inter-tidal sea stack off the north-east coast of the Isle of Lewis, near the village of Knockaird (Cnoc Àrd) in the district of Ness (Nis),…
Fortified place · Iron Age
Outer Hebrides
On the southern edge of a promontory in South Uist stand the oval walls of Dun Vulan, known in Scottish Gaelic as Dùn Mhùlan or Dùn Mhaoilinn. The…
Fortified place · Medieval
Outer Hebrides
In 2001 the chief of Clan MacNeil leased Kisimul Castle to Historic Scotland for 1000 years, for an annual rent of £1 and a bottle of whisky. The a…
Fortified place · Medieval
Outer Hebrides
A private retreat built on an opium-trade fortune ended up given whole to the town it once stood apart from: a rare reversal for a Highland laird's…
Fortified place · Medieval
Outer Hebrides
A T-plan, two-storey mansion house on South Uist, Ormacleit Castle stood as the seat of Clanranald for barely a decade before fire reduced it to th…
Sacred place · Prehistoric
Outer Hebrides
At least two dozen stones stand in an oval on the south side of Ben Langass on North Uist, eight of them on the northern arc and sixteen on the sou…
Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Outer Hebrides
Three generations of MacLeod chiefs are buried in the walls of this building, in tombs they had prepared for themselves while alive. The church at…
Tomb or burial place · Prehistoric
Outer Hebrides
Ten large stone slabs ring a low central mound on the west coast of Lewis, the only part still standing of the stone burial mound known as Steinacl…
Briefer entries: recorded and worth knowing, with fuller pages to come.
Sacred place · Prehistoric
Outer Hebrides
Seven thin standing stones rise from a ridge overlooking Loch Roag, on the western side of Lewis, set out in an ellipse measuring 21.6 by 18.9 metr…
Sacred place · Prehistoric
Outer Hebrides
Two concentric ellipses of stone stand on the moor above Loch Roag on the Isle of Lewis, forming Callanish III: Gaelic name Cnoc Fillibhir Bheag. T…
Sacred place · Prehistoric
Outer Hebrides
Four standing stones rise in a semicircle along a cliff edge on the southern side of Great Bernera, looking out over the narrow strait that separat…
Fortified place · Iron Age
Outer Hebrides
Loch na Berie sits some 400 yards from the shore of the Isle of Lewis, its broch (a tall circular tower of unmortared stone, found only in Scotland…
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