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Recording Your Heritage Online
Event ID 566914
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Recording Your Heritage Online
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/566914
Kilmuir Old Kirk (Cille Mhuire), 1764, mason John Arbuckle of South Queensferry Mottled ruin of old parish church standing just outside its walled burial ground (now extended), which breasts a slight eminence on Hougharry machair. Site of the island's earliest church, which we know stood here in 1549, the graveyard contains various important stone burial enclosures - flat-topped boxes with good squared edges, the largest being that of the Macdonalds of Balranald, with lintel incised 1768. See also the gneiss cross with boss (arms missing), and various other crudely carved stones of 10th/11 th century.
Kilmuir Parish Church, Alexander Shairp, 1894 A dullish T-plan hall, turned into something of a landmark by a stagey, battlemented tower.
Taken from "Western Seaboard: An Illustrated Architectural Guide", by Mary Miers, 2008. Published by the Rutland Press http://www.rias.org.uk
