Dùn Beic
Dùn Beic is a dun located on the Inner Hebridean island of Coll. It is located at grid reference NM15495644 and is thought to date to between 1000 BCE to 1000 CE.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Archaeological site
- Description: dun located on the Inner Hebridean island of Coll
- Also known as: “Dun Beic” and “Dùn Beic, dun site”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Coll Airport and Totamore dun.
Coll Airport
Aerodrome
Photo: Gordon Brown, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Coll Island Airport is located 5 NM west southwest of Arinagour on the island of Coll in the Inner Hebrides. Highland Airways who originally operated the route to Oban went into administration in 2010, but a new operator, Hebridean Air Services now operates the route under a PSO with flights to Oban and Tiree using Britten-Norman BN-2 Islander aircraft.
Totamore dun
Archaeological site
Totamore Dun is a dun located at grid reference NM17625713; near the settlement of Totamore, on the Inner Hebridean island of Coll. It occupies the summit of a rocky boss, on the eastern edge of the sand-hills located 300 metres north of Totamore. Totamore dun is situated 1½ miles east of Dùn Beic.
Breachacha Castle
Castle
Photo: Gordon Brown, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Breachacha Castle is either of two structures on the shore of Loch Breachacha, on the Inner Hebridean island of Coll, Scotland. The earlier is a 15th-century tower house that was a stronghold of the Macleans of Coll, the island having been granted to John Maclean in 1431. Breachacha Castle is situated 1½ miles south of Dùn Beic.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Acha and Coll.
Acha
Hamlet
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Acha is a small hamlet on the Scottish island of Coll. Acha is situated 2 miles southeast of Dùn Beic.
Coll
Photo: AlasdairW, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Coll is an island in the Inner Hebrides of Scotland. It's about 12 miles long by 3 miles wide and in 2011 had a population of 195, mostly in the ferry port of Arinagour.
Arinagour
Village
Photo: Bob Jones, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Arinagour is a village on the island of Coll, in the Argyll and Bute council area of Scotland. It is the main settlement on the island, and the location of the island's ferry terminal. It has a population of around 50. Arinagour is situated 4½ miles east of Dùn Beic.
Dùn Beic
- Categories: dun, historic site, tourist attraction, and tourism
- Location: Argyll and Bute, Scottish Highlands, Scotland, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
56.61326° or 56° 36′ 48″ northLongitude
-6.63868° or 6° 38′ 19″ westOpen location code
9C8MJ976+8GOpenStreetMap ID
node 7047239636OpenStreetMap feature
historic=archaeological_siteWikidata ID
Q5320407
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In Other Languages
“Dùn Beic” goes by many names.
- Irish: “Dún Beic”
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