It is located near Kilmory on the Isle of Arran in Scotland (grid reference NR95532108).

Torrylin Cairn is situated beside Kilmory Water just south of the hamlet of Lagg.

[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.