Broch at Carloway - Isle of Lewis - Western Isles - Outer Hebrides
The Broch is about a mile and a half away from Carloway sixteen miles North West of Stornoway on The Isle of Lewis. The Broch, a great circular tower that still stands thirty feet high, located on the hilltop and commanding a panoramic view of Loch Roag
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Isle of Lewis History - Dun Carloway Broch
Up to as late as the 1870's this building or "fortress", the Dun Carloway Broch was occupied - when it is said that a respectable - looking family were living on the ground floor of the broch. The Broch, approximately half the age of the Callanish Stones but is almost as much of a rarity
