WoSAS Pin: 704

Site Name: Port nan Urrachann, Scarba

Alternative Name(s):

Monument Type: Shieling-huts

Council: Argyll and Bute

Parish: Jura

Map Sheet: NM60SE

Grid Reference: 168000, 704550

Canmore Number: 22368

Non-Statutory Register Code: N

Site Report

WoSASPIN 704
NM60SE 1 c680 046.

Six beehive cells, similar to those on Eilean a' Naoimh, but more ruinous, are clustered together on a sheltered depression leading down from the terrace to Iurach Bay, the only landing-place on this side of the island.
P H Gillies 1909

Iurach Bay and Port nan Urrachann are one and the same (A MacPhail, boatman, Oban). A perambulation of the area around Port nan Urrachan failed to find any evidence of beehive cells, but a few crude bothy-type shelters lie scattered round the bay.
Visited by OS (WDJ) 14 April 1970

Further Reading and Sources

Gillies, P H , Netherlorn Argyllshire and its neighbourhood. London.(1909)