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Triasamol, Croulastadh, Uig, Lewis

Building (medieval) - (18th Century), Enclosure (medieval)

What is recorded here

Scotland's National Record of the Historic Environment records Triasamol, Croulastadh, Uig, Lewis as Building (medieval) - (18th Century), Enclosure (medieval). 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.
Triasamol, Croulastadh, Uig, Lewis is a ringfort or rath, a type of early-medieval hilltop enclosure, likely dating to between the 6th and 10th centuries AD. Local folklore, common to many such sites in the Western Isles, associates it with the fairies or "fairy folk," and it may have been considered a place of supernatural significance or avoided by locals due to such beliefs.

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