Dun Grugaig, Glenelg

Name: Dun Grugaig
Address: Glenelg, United Kingdom

#3 among attractions in Glenelg

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Dun Grugaig is a D-shaped dun, or "semi-broch", located about 7 kilometres southeast of the village of Glenelg, Highland, in Scotland. ()

Alternative names: Coordinates: 57°11'1"N, 5°33'25"W

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Glenelg United Kingdom

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Dun Grugaig – popular in the area (distance from the attraction)

Nearby attractions include: Glenelg Inn, Beinn Sgritheall, Dun Telve, Druim Fada.

3.2 miNW
Nightlife, Restaurant
Glenelg Inn, Glenelg
81 min walk • Glenelg Inn is a public house and inn in the village of Glenelg in the Highlands of Scotland. The current building dates to the second half of the 20th century, but remnants of the previous structure — the "imposing" Glenelg Hotel, which was largely destroyed in a 1947 fire — still stand.
2.2 miS
Nature, Natural attraction, Mountain
Beinn Sgritheall
57 min walk • Beinn Sgritheall is the highest mountain in the Glenelg area of the Highlands of Scotland. The main approach is via Arnisdale on the shores of Loch Hourn or via Gleann Beag to the north, with its well-known brochs.
1.6 miNW
Ruins, Archaeological site
Dun Telve, Glenelg
41 min walk • Dun Telve is an iron-age broch located about 4 kilometres southeast of the village of Glenelg, Inverness-shire in the Highland Region of Scotland. It is one of the best preserved brochs in Scotland.
5.4 miSE
Mountain
Druim Fada, Knoydart
139 min walk • Druim Fada is a mountain in the Northwest Highlands of Scotland. Located on the northern shore of Loch Hourn in Ross and Cromarty. A long, craggy ridge, it runs for several kilometres on the northern side of the loch. The nearest village is Arnisdale to the west.
1.3 miNW
Archaeological site
Dun Troddan, Glenelg
35 min walk • Dun Troddan is an iron-age broch located about 5 kilometres southeast of the village of Glenelg, Highland, in Scotland. It is one of the best-preserved brochs in Scotland.
3.3 miNW
Forts and castles
Bernera Barracks, Glenelg
83 min walk • Bernera Barracks is located in Glenelg in the West Highlands of Scotland. The barracks were constructed between 1717 and 1723 as part of a campaign by the British government to subdue the local population which had risen up in arms in the Jacobite Rising of 1715, and which would do so again in 1745.
5.3 miE
Nature, Natural attraction, Valley
Glen Shiel
136 min walk • Glen Shiel is a glen in the Northwest Highlands of Scotland. The glen runs approximately 9 miles from south-east to north-west, from the Cluanie Inn at the western end of Loch Cluanie and the start of Glenmoriston to sea level at the village of Shiel Bridge and Loch Duich.
6.6 miNW
Nature, Natural attraction, Mountain
Beinn na Caillich, Kyleakin
170 min walk • Beinn na Caillich is a mountain at the eastern end of the Isle of Skye, in Scotland. It is situated to the west of Kyle Rhea, about 4 km south-east of Kyleakin.
3.4 miS
Church
Arnisdale Free Church
88 min walk • Arnisdale Free Church is a church building at one time connected to the Free Church of Scotland. It is sited in Arnisdale, Inverness-shire, Scotland. According to Ewing's The Annals of the Free Church, the original building was constructed in 1856 as a simple meeting-house connected to Glenelg Free Church of Scotland.