Torrylin Cairn

Torrylin Cairn is situated beside Kilmory Water just south of the hamlet of Lagg.^[1]

The cairn has been interfered with by stone robbing and later dumping of field stones and its original shape and size are uncertain.^[2] The chamber is 6.7 metres (22 feet 0 inches) long by about 1.2 m (3 ft 11 in) wide with each compartment about 1.4 m (4 ft 7 in) long.^[2] Torrylin Cairn is of a type found across south-west Scotland known as a Clyde cairn, of which a better preserved example can be found at Carn Ban, about three miles (five kilometres) to the northeast.^[1] The tomb would probably have had a crescent-shaped forecourt, framed by a façade of slender upright stones.^[1]

Antiquarian excavations in the 19th century uncovered an elongated burial chamber, divided into four compartments.^[1] Only the innermost compartment was intact. It contained the remains of six adults, a child and an infant.^[1] Beside them lay a flint tool and a fragment of pottery.^[1]

Media related to Torrylin Cairn at Wikimedia Commons

• Historic Environment Scotland. "Torrylin,chambered long cairn 610m SW of (SM90307)".