Desk Based Assessment
Event ID 656043
Category Recording
Type Desk Based Assessment
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/656043
NF70NW 3 7051 0738.
(NF 7051 0738) Cille-Bharra (NR)
OS 6" map, Inverness-shire, 2nd ed., (1904)
Cille-bharra: the remains of a church and two chapels, with walls up to 8ft high, in an unenclosed burial ground, are recorded by the RCAHMS (A, C and D), but MacCulloch (1824), refers to four buildings within an enclosure bearing traces of an external ditch. The building at A has been identified as St Barr's Church: a St Mary's Church is also noted but not identified. (RCAHMS 1928) Muir, who visited the site in 1886, thought the fourth chapel (B) (not mentioned by the RCAHMS) had been the parish church until about 1835. Martin, c.1700, refers to "St Barr's Church", with 'a little chappel by it ...'
A Runic stone found in the churchyard is now in the NMAS (IB 102) dated after AD 900.
Information from OS.
J MacCulloch 1824; T S Muir 1885; J R Allen and J Anderson 1903; RCAHMS 1928; A O Curle, M Olsen and H Shetelig 1954.
