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Caisteal a' Mhorair

Type:Monuments & Ruins

New Tolsta
Isle Of Lewis
Outer Hebrides
HS2 0NN

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This is an impregnable 23m high finger of rock rising from the sands at the south end of Traigh Ghearadha, North Tolsta. Its narrow plateau is completely covered by structures about 8m wide. It can be viewed safely from the adjacent cliffs.

One of the structures may have been a small tower, whilst another is of a size big enough to have been a small hall or enclosed courtyard. It was at least semi-permanently occupied, with fireplaces and debris such as pottery, bones and pounding stones.

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Caisteal a' Mhorair

Type:Monuments & Ruins

About

TripAdvisor

Map & Directions

What's Nearby

Traigh Mhor

Traigh Ghearadha

Red Clover- Garry Beach

Heritage Trail from Tolsta to Port of Ness

Peter May Trilogy - Bridge to Nowhere

Bridge to Nowhere

Dùn Othail

Tolsta Head

Gress Lodge Corn Mill

Gress Beach

Gress Raiders Memorial

Coll Pottery Craft Centre

Hidden Hebrides

Brevig Pier (Breibhig)

Peter May Trilogy - Fin's Aunt's House Skigersta

Tiumpan Head

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