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and many others equally common but bearing less familiar 

 names. 



Dun Eibhinn, situated about a mile west of the harbour, 

 is one of the most impressive of the many forts that once 

 crowned the summits of the hills throughout the island. It 

 is circular in shape, and close on 100 feet in diameter. The 

 position was practically inaccessible except on the side of 

 the entrance to the fort. The hill, like a number more of 

 those that had been utilised for defensive purposes, is green 

 and strewn with the stones which had once formed the 

 fortifications. The last of the M'Phees of Colonsay is said 

 to have lived in the fort. Dunan Leathann is near Cnoc-an- 

 Ardrigh, on the right-hand side of the road that leads up to 

 Milbuie from Scalasaig. The stones were many years ago 

 rolled down the slopes and used for building the dry-stone 

 dyke on the east side of the road. The hearthstone (leac- 

 an-teinntean) discovered in it was so large as to cause those 

 who saw it to wonder how it could have been carried up the 

 hill. A short distance from the hotel, in Buaile Riabhach, 

 a Druidical circle is to be seen. On Beinn-nan-Gudairean, 

 to the south of Loch Fada, heather ale used, it is said, 

 to be made. A large granite boulder, which was probably 

 left there during the glacier period, lies near the top of 

 the hill. 



About a mile north of the harbour, at Riskbuie, on the east 

 coast, some stones mark the site of the Caibeal the Chapel 

 of Riskbuie. A curious carved figure, now fixed up at 

 Tobar Oran, was part of a stone cross formerly standing on 

 the east side of the chapel. Another carved figure that 

 rtjioiced in the local sobriquet of Dealbh-na-leisg (Image of 

 Sloti"K) is believed to have been built into one of the adjoin- 

 ing dweilling-houses. 



In addition to those noted, other antiquarian remains 

 ruins, standings stones, cairns, burial-places, knocking-stanes, 

 etc. are to be sen in various parts of the island. 



