What is recorded here
Scotland's National Record of the Historic Environment records Mccole's Castle as Chambered Cairn (neolithic). The official map says its point is accurate as follows: NGR given to the nearest 1m. The record does not by itself mean that the public may enter the place.
Mccole's Castle is a Neolithic chambered cairn, built during the early first millennium BCE, and is important as a rare surviving example of prehistoric funerary architecture in the region.
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Photo: Sandy Gerrard · CC BY-SA 2.0