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Field Visit
Date 5 April 2016
Event ID 1031911
Category Recording
Type Field Visit
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1031911
This relatively modern burial enclosure is situated in the NE of the island and is traditionally known as the burial ground of the Catholics of Moidart (J Kirkby pers comm). It measures about 25m square within a grass-grown earth and stone bank up to 2m thick and 0.4m high which has been reduced to its foundations on the ENE and NNW sides. There is an entrance gap about 3m wide roughly midway along the WSW side and another about 3.5m wide at the SE corner. The latter now faces on to the marshy ground around the springhead of the small burn flowing E, but would formerly have led to the old pier (NM76NE 47).
The enclosure contains at least 110 simple stone grave-markers (both head- and foot-stones), 14 small cairns and 3 headstones, some of which appear to be roughly arranged in rows. Amongst them is a fine horizontal early 19th century slate grave slab which is situated near the crest of the scarp overlooking the stream (NM 75251 68313). It is dedicated to the memory of Susan Macintyre and bears the following inscription:
Here lyes the / Remains of / Susan Mcintyre / Who Departed / This Life the 12 / Day of August / 1812 Aged 21 ye / ars and nine / weeks this is / Done by the / order of her / Husband Charles / Cameron at / Aorin
A railed enclosure in the NW corner of the enclosure contains the most prominent headstone (NM 75237 68320), erected by Flora Corbett (d.1943) in memory of her parents Allan and Anne, brothers, and their children. In 1851, Allan was resident at Ardtoe and was occupied as a cattle dealer (NRS Census 505/31/10). The inscription reads:
Erected By / Flora Corbett / In Memory of Her Parents / Allan Corbett / Died 15th Dec 1859, Aged 43 Years / Anne Corbett / Died 23rd July 1890, Aged 65 Years / And Her Brother / Charles / Died 12th October 1875, Aged 24 Years / Also Her Husband / Engelbert E Angler / Died 25th Sep 1915, Aged 74 Years. / And Their Children / Duncan, Died 30th May 1885 / Aged 1 Year and 8 Months. / Allanina Anne / Died 22nd March 1918, Aged 39 Years / Charles / Died 24th Dec 1939 / The Above / Flora [F] Corbett / Died 27th Feb 1943 / Their Son / Capt. Engelbert F. Angler M.R.C.V.S. / Died 2nd March 1950
Visited by HES, Survey and Recording (ATW, GG) 5 April 2016.
