Inishail Kirk
Church (Period Unassigned)
Site Name Inishail Kirk
Classification Church (Period Unassigned)
Alternative Name(s) Cladich, Parish Church; Innishail Kirk; Innistrynish
Canmore ID 23685
Site Number NN12SW 8
NGR NN 10956 23332
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/23685
- Council Argyll And Bute
- Parish Glenorchy And Inishail (Argyll And Bute)
- Former Region Strathclyde
- Former District Argyll And Bute
- Former County Argyll
NN12SW 8 10956 23332
See also NN02SE 2 and NN12NE 8.
Parish Church, Cladich. In 1736, the medieval parish church of Inishail (NN92SE 2) was abandoned and a new building erected 1.8kms NE of Cladich near the SE shore of Loch Awe, to serve the S portion of the united parish of Glenorchy and Inishail. Writing in 1843, the author of the New Statistical Account of the parish states that the church was 'a paltry building, erected about seventy years ago'. The author of the earlier Statistical Account, however, makes no mention of this rebuilding, which would have been executed during his own incumbency. Whereas the existing church may incorporate the 18th-century structure, it owes its present form to a remodelling which took place in 1896. It is a plain rectangular building measuring 16.0m ENE-WSW by 7.1m transversely over all, lit by four windows in each of the side-walls. The E gable is surmounted by a bell-cot containing an inscribed bell which dates from a re-casting in 1865.
RCAHMS 1975, visited August 1970.
