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Field Visit
Date May 1976
Event ID 1167771
Category Recording
Type Field Visit
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1167771
NR 453 528. The ruins of this chapel stand close to the edge of a rock escarpment on the wooded lower slopes of Cnoc Mor a' Chlaiginn.' It is a small oblong building measuring 6m from E to W by 3m in width within walls 1.5m in average thickness. The walls, which stand comparatively well preserved to a height of about 1.5m, are of drystone rubble masonry; the external face of the wall is battered and partly round-angled. The entrance-doorway is situated towards the W end of the s side-wall and has outward splayed reveals; there is no surviving evidence of window-openings. The interior contains four small aurnbries, three at the E end and a fourth, at a high-level, at the S end of the W wall. In its existing form the building is unicameral but contains much masonry debris, some of which may represent part of a collapsed internal partition.
The site is surrounded by the turf-covered remains of a stone dyke, enclosing an area about 48m from E to by 30m in width. This wall is best preserved in the W and NW sections, where it survives to a height of about 0.75m and varies in width between 1.5m and 2m. Foundations of an irregularly aligned wall of slighter construction traverse the E half of the site, and a gap in the centre of the outer E circuit possibly marks the position of an entrance. Traces of a small oblong setting of stones are situated about 4m SW of the SW angle of the chapel, and there are some indeterminate remains 1.5m E of the building.
Visited May 1976
RCAHMS 1984
