Walk: Garrabost – more than meets the Eye?

📌 Eye Peninsula, Isle of Lewis
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This waymarked circuit in the middle of the un-touristy Eye Peninsula crosses an area of moorland to the southeast of Garrabost. The landscape seems barren and featureless, but there turn out to be two archaeological highlights: a chambered cairn on Cnoc nan Dursainean with views of the coast, and a triangular standing stone near a meandering burn.

📷 Chronological photo guide

🌍 Location

📌 Start / finish at end of Graham Avenue, off the A866 at Garrabost, Isle of Lewis

🧭 O.S. Grid Reference: NB 520334

🛰️ GPS coordinates: 58.219013,-6.224534

🚌 Bus stops on A866 at junction with Graham Avenue

🚗 Limited space at road end – don’t block access / turning

📝 Key info

▶ 2 km / 1 mi | ▲ 30 m | ⌛ 1 hr

Features: ✞ Dursinean Chambered Cairn; 🪨 Clach Ghlas

⬤ Moderate | Waymarked boggy moorland, mostly with a path / track but fades out for periods. Return along a roadside pavement. A barbed wire fence to climb near Clach Ghlas at time of writing in 2025.

➡️ Anticlockwise circuit: start – Dursinean Chambered Cairn – Clach Ghlas – track along Allt na Muilne – Garrabost – start

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🥾 On our last visit

Wildlife: Sparrows, not much else.

Weather: 10°C, rain showers & a little sun.

June 2025