Memorial Cairn, Arnish, Lewis is a Grade C listed building in the Na h-Eileanan Siar local planning authority area, Scotland. First listed on 31 March 1993. Monument.
Memorial Cairn, Arnish, Lewis
- WRENN ID
- frozen-rotunda-jackdaw
- Grade
- C
- Local Planning Authority
- Na h-Eileanan Siar
- Constituency
- Na h-Eileanan an Iar MP: Torcuil Crichton (Lab)
- Country
- Scotland
- Date first listed
- 31 March 1993
- Type
- Monument
- OS grid reference
- NB 425 300
- Coordinates
- 58.1835, -6.3814
- Source
- Historic Environment Scotland listing
Description
The memorial cairn at Arnish, Lewis, is believed to have been constructed by the Mathesons of Lewis Castle around 1860. This stone cairn is round-topped, circular in shape, and features a battered design. It commemorates Prince Charles Edward Stuart's visit to this location in 1746 while he was in hiding after the Battle of Culloden.
Local climate
Memorial Cairn, Arnish, Lewis sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,210 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 92% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 94% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 12 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 89% of listed buildings. Of these, 8 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.2°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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