Monument record 6921 - Bagh an Acair

Two conjoined rectilinear structures with separate entrances, both with drystone boulder walls and orientated N-S. The northern (A) measures 8m by 3.5m, with walls up to 1m high internally; an entrance, 0.8m wide, lies toward the N end of the E wall; featureless interior. The southern structure (B) measures 7.5 by 3.5m, with walls surviving to 1m high. adjoined to the west wall of A, the overlap being 2m - there are traces of rebuilding at this junction which suggests that B is secondary. As only one structure is visible on the second edition OS of 1904, it is possible that B was only built after this date. The entrance to B is 0.7m wide, and situated midway along its E wall. A secondary stone partition foundation encloses the northern 2m of its interior. A rubble mound containing traces of walling lies to the W of A and could be the remains of an enclosure recorded here on OS 1881 and 1904. To the E of the structures an erosion face in a discrete mound revealed a midden dump containing 19th and 20th century artefacts, such as a boot sole and porcelain, as well as sea-shells and peat ash. The combined field and cartographic evidence suggests that occupation of this site must have continued into the 20th century.
Dunwell 1997

Andrew Dunwell, 1998, Vallay Strand Project 1995-7 (Unpublished document). SWE41015.