Monument record MHG9564 - Coillelyal

Three closely grouped cairns ('A'-'C') centred at NC 718 598 on the summit of a ridge overlooking the mouth of Strathnaver.
'A' the most southerly cairn is set on a small but quite pronounced west facing slope. It is about 10.5m in diameter and due to the slope is 2.0m high in the west, but of negligible height on the upper east side. The interior has been disturbed in places, but no cist or chamber is apparent. In common with the other cairns there is no evidence of a kerb.
'B' is situated above a small rocky slope. It measures approximately 17.0m east-west by 12.0m and stands to 2.1m high. War-time work has seriously mutilated the cairn on the east side and especially in the centre, where a wall face 2.1m high has been constructed. No structural features have been revealed. Like cairn 'A' it is built of large angular blocks.
'C' does not have the physical stature of the other two cairns. Partly covered by heather and situated on a slight west facing slope, it measures approximately 9.0m east-west by 8.0m and stands up to 1.4m high on the west side. Three slabs protruding up to 0.4m through the cairn material suggests this is possibly chambered; their positions may indicate they are the back slab and possibly two portal stones of an Orkney-Cromarty chamber.
Surveyed at 1:10000.
Visited by OS (JB) 18 December 1978.