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Field Visit
Date 6 May 1914
Event ID 1105122
Category Recording
Type Field Visit
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1105122
Teampuill Choan, Ord.
Some 250 yards south-south-west of Ord farmhouse, on a slight rocky outcrop on the shoulder of Cnoc na Fuarachad overlooking Loch Eishort from the east, near the 100-foot contour line, are the slight remains of Teampuill Choan (‘Congan's Church’). The north-east corner and the greater part of the northern wall, built of stone and shell lime, measuring 2 feet 6 inches in thickness, remains to a height of 2 feet 6 inches at most above the foundation. The other walls are traceable only as grass-grown mounds, and the church, which is rectangular and orientated almost east and west, seems to have been about 26 feet in length and 18 feet in breadth externally. A grass-covered hollow to the north is still called Laggan Teampuill.
FONT. A font was discovered many years ago in or near the church, but has since been removed out of the island.
HOLY WELL, TOBAR CHOAN. This well, a fine strong spring, bursts out at the foot of a rock immediately below the farmhouse at Ord, a few yards above the high-water mark. It lies about 300 yards north-north-west of the ruins of the church.
RCAHMS 1928, visited 6 May 1914.
OS map: Skye li ('Chaon').
