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Field Visit
Date 28 May 1914
Event ID 1105008
Category Recording
Type Field Visit
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1105008
Carved Slab, Kilmuir Churchyard.
Another slab, 6 feet 1 inch in length and 1 foot 8 inches in breadth at the top, 1 foot 7 ½ inches at the bottom, bears a galley or lymphad in a shield in the upper part with a two-handed sword below, measuring 3 feet 10 inches in length. On the dexter side of the hilt is the figure of a stag and another animal placed longitudinally on the stone, and on the sinister side is another animal, perhaps a lion rampant. On either side of the blade is a foliaceous design.
GRAVE SLAB. A grave slab, probably late 17th century, bears the following incomplete inscription:
HERE LYES / THE REMAINS OF / CHARLES MAC / KARTER WHOSE / FAME AS AN HON / EST MAN AND / REMARKABLE PIP / ER WILL SURVIVE / THIS GENERATION / FOR HIS MANNERS / WERE EASY & RE / GULAR AS HIS / MUSIC AND THUS THO / THE MELODY OF / HIS FINGERS WILL . . .
On the MacArthurs as pipers see New Stat. Acct., XIV., p. 285.
RCAHMS 1928 No. 537, visited 28 May 1914.
OS map: Skye iv (unnoted).
