But the moft entire is that ftyled Cajlal-an dui, lying at the foot I
of the hill Grianan, on the farm of Cajhly, three miles weft from I
Miggerny. On the N. W. fide is a ftone twenty-nine feet long,!
and nine thick, which fupplies part of the building on the out-l
fide. The form of this building is a circle : the thicknefs froml
eleven to twelve feet ; and within the place where the great ftcrnel
ftands, is an additional ftrength of wall, about eight feet thick.1
The moft complete place is nine feet and a half high : the diame-l
ter within the wall is forty-five feet. The greateft part of thel
ftones ufed in this edifice are from three to fix feet long, and froml
one and a half to three feet thick.
About three hundred yards weft from this is another, calledi
CaJial-an-Beirg. A mile farther weft is another, of the name.ofl
Fiam-nam-boinean 5 and laftly, within fight of this, five mil J
diftant, on the fide of a hill called Ben-chajlal, is one more, thel
moft wefterly of any we have yet had intelligence of. Moft, if ncstl
all of thefe, lie in Glen-Lion. The tradition of the inhabitants re-1
fpefhing them is included in thefe lines ;
D à chaifteal-deng aig Feann
Ann an crom-ghleann nar clach.
That is, “ Fingal, the king of heroes, had twelve towers i l l
H the winding valley of the grey-headed ftones.”
I muft mention two others, that are out of the line of thefe,!
yet might be fubfervient to their ufe. One lies on the north fidcl
of Loch-Fay, about five miles eaft of Killin, above the public roadl
The other, called Caijleal Baraora, on the fouth fide, about. iB
quarter of a mile from the lake, and a meafured mile eaft of Ah'U
mere, the feat of Mr. Campbel, of Achalader.
O il
I On the top of a great eminence, a furlong from this, are the
remains of a vaft enclofure, a ftrong hold, of the fame nature
with that I faw in Glen-elg * ; to which the inhabitants might drive
their cattle in time of invafion, on the fignals given from the round
¿towers. The form tends to an oval; the greateft length is three
hundred and fixty feet; the breadth one hundred and twenty. No
part of the wall is entire, but the ftones that formed it lie in ruins
Bn the ground to the breadth of fifteen feet. Within, near the
eaft end, is the foundation of a reftangular building, thirty-eight
feet long, ten broad. This poft commands a vaft view of the weft
end of Breadalbane, almoft to the head of the vallies of Glen-Do-
jhart, and Glen-Lochy ; and at a very fmall diftance from it is feen
.the hill of Brummin, from whofe round tower the fignal might
»feafily be received.
H The round edifices of this internal part of Scotland, and thofe
of the coaft and of the iflands, feem to have been: ereited for
the fame purpofe, but probably by different architefts. The for-
jner are the labors of much lefs ikilful workmen'; the ftones
more rude, the facings lefs exad and elegant, but not inferior
to the manner now in ufe in the common dry walled houfes of the
country.
wt I cannot but think that all thefe buildings were originally con-
pru&ed by the natives; and that thofe fo frequent in the iflands,.
and of fuch fuperior workmanihip, might have been re-built by
the Banes and Norwegians^ on the fame model, but more artificially
¿than thofe they found on the fpot. From all the enquiries I have
* Voyage to the Hebrides, p. 336.