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Archaeology Notes
Date - 1969
Event ID 647825
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/647825
NB56NW 2 52307 65425
(NB 523 654) Teampull Ronaidh (NR) (Site of)
OS 6" map, Ross-shire, 2nd ed., (1898)
Depicted as (site of) and annotated Teampull Ronaidh on the 1st Edition of the Ordnance Survey 6-inch map (Island of Lewis, Ross-shire, 1853, sheet 1). The Object Name Book (OS) describes the site as 'The ruins of a small hut, on the summit of an arable Knoll, at the Butt of Lewis. It is about 20 feet long by 12 wide, and is supposed to be of great antiquity. It is said to have been built by a person named Ronaidh who with his sister inhabited it.
The supposition that it was a church, appears to be fabulous, so it is not borne out by either tradition or appearance.
No part of the walls is now standing'
(Name Book 1852).
The ruin of Teampull Ronaidh, listed as the Church of St Ronan by Martin (M Martin 1934) and locally believed to be much the oldest church in northern Lewis (W C Mackenzie 1919), is an irregular rectangular stony mound about 24ft long by 18ft broad and oriented almost ESE and WNW, on the summit of a slight elevation.
(W C Mackenzie 1919; RCAHMS 1928, visited 13 July 1914; M Martin 1934).
Teampull Ronaidh, at NB 5229 6542, is generally as described by the Commission, although traces of the footings of the west end of the church can be seen.
Revised at 1/2500.
Visited by OS (R L) 16 June 1969.
