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Recording Your Heritage Online
Date 2008
Event ID 567098
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Recording Your Heritage Online
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/567098
Chapel House, 1898, designed and built by John MacIntyre of Barra
The ruin of a 'modern' gabled house with mortared masonry walls, comprising priest's house on the ground floor, with St. Columba's Chapel (reached by a forestair) above. Set above the village at a dignified distance, the house retains, even as it collapses, something of its former symbolic presence. The altar, made by the Mingulay joiner John Mackinnon, is now in the Catholic church at Castlebay (NL69NE 66). Just discernible above engulfing sand on the burn-side burial knoll, a fragment of St. Columba's Chapel, of 8th century origin (NL58SE 2).
Taken from "Western Seaboard: An Illustrated Architectural Guide", by Mary Miers, 2008. Published by the Rutland Press http://www.rias.org.uk
