An Iron Age broch reached by three causeways and an Island of Bad Counsel

Dùn an Sticir sits on a small island in a loch about six miles north of Lochmaddy. It was built as a broch in the Iron Age and was probably lived in through the Viking period. Three stone causeways cross the loch: one wide enough for carts leads to a larger island called Eilean na Mi-Chomhairle, the Island of Bad Counsel, and from there a curving causeway leads on to the broch. In 1602 Hugh MacDonald of Sleat, Ùisdean MacGilleEasbuig Chlèirich, was living in the medieval hall built inside the old broch walls.