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Field Visit
Date July 1974
Event ID 1168889
Category Recording
Type Field Visit
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1168889
Mortuary House.
The only monument now visible within the burial-ground is the remarkable tomb known as Hugh MacKay's Grave, which stands near the N corner of the enclosure. This is a well-built structure of rubble masonry laid in clay mortar which incorporates an oblong chamber of unknown depth measuring 1.95m in length and about 0.5m in width. The walls have a thickness of about 0.5m and the chamber is ceiled with slab-lintels covered with small boulders. This tomb, which bears some resemblance to a well-known type of Irish mortuary-house, (Ulster J Archaeol) is probably of medieval date. The family of MacKay of the Rinns for lona served the MacDonalds as lieutenants of that district of Islay. (Proc Royal Irish Academy; Lamont 1968; Steer and Bannerman 1977; MacNeill 1900)
Visited July 1974
RCAHMS 1984
