Thomas, F.W.L, 1812-1885 (Captain)
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Note about a dun on Tarasaigh/Taransay, 9 July 1870
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      Identifier: Coll-97/CW116/43
    
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        Note about a dun on Tarasaigh/Taransay giving its dimensions as seventeen yards in diameter and describing the remains of it as the foundations 'all a grassy mound' on the slope of a hill and how a narrow passge leads from the outside to the centre. It was said that Dùn Loch an Dùin could be seen from this dun so that it 'Must have been 100 f[ee]t high'. Carmichael notes that there is 'A lump of a hill betw[een] these two duns' and that Capt[ain] Thomas made a plan of the dun some years...
    
    
        Dates: 
      9 July 1870
    
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