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Field Visit
Date May 1976
Event ID 1168971
Category Recording
Type Field Visit
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1168971
NR 299 473. The remains of this small chapel and its enclosure are situated about 100 m NW of the township at Tockmal (RCAHMS 1984, No. 427); they stand on a terrace above the left bank of the unnamed burn that flows through the township. The chapel is round-angled, measuring internally 5.6m from E to W by 3.2m within walls 1.25m in average thickness. The walls are of turf-covered drystone construction and stand to an average height of 1m. The entrance-doorway is placed towards the w end of the N side-wall, and close to the existing ground-level in the SE corner there is an aumbry 0.3 m high.
The enclosure is roughly rectilinear, measuring 27m from E to W, and is best defined on the S and W where there is a substantial stone-and-turf dyke which has probably been rebuilt in comparatively modern times. The two remaining sides of the enclosure-wall survive mainly as a band of stony debris, and the natural terrace is revetted on the E.
Tobar An T-Sagairt. There are no visible remains of the 'Priest's well' in the position shown on the Ordnance Survey 6-inch map some 3m from the SE angle of the enclosure, but it may possibly be identified with the ruinous chamber about 32m N of the chapel on the NE side the burn.
RCAHMS 1984, visited May 1976.
