Monument record 8508 - Garry Iochdrach

A large grassed mound, measuring c. 25m NW-SE by 20m, and standing up to 2m high, lies towards the W end of the summit ridge of the knoll at Garry Iochdrach. The surface of the mound is pitted; some of this is probably due to stone robbing, although in some cases narrow linear trenches have exposed possible wall faces - it appears that Erskine Beveridge had trenches this site but was unable to find any coherent structural remains within it. a rubble matrix could be seen in rabbit burrows in the mound at various points. a deposit of shells, possibly a midden, had been disturbed by burrowing towards the base of its NW slope. A drystone rectilinear structure, measuring 5m across internally and with evidence of wall facing, has been cut into the S slope of themound, and is probably of no great antiquity. The scale of the mound and its stony content suggests that it may contain the remains of a substantial prehistoric structure as an Atlantic roundhouse or chambered cairn.

Andrew Dunwell, 1998, Vallay Strand Project 1995-7 (Unpublished document).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