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Archaeology Notes
Event ID 658788
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/658788
NG47SE 5.00 4645 7185
NG47SE 5.01 centred on 4645 7190 Buildings; Enclosure
(NG 4645 7185) Kildorais in Flodigarry is noted by the NSA (1845) as one of the Cills of Kilmuir, and of pre-Viking date. It is listed by Cockburn (J H Cockburn 1954), as Kildavie Chapel, Flodigarry. There is a Tobar Kiltavie at NG 464 718 (OS 6"map, Isle of Skye, Inverness-shire, 2nd ed., 1904).
Flodgery is noted as a village in Martin's time (M Martin 1934)
NSA 1845; M Martin 1934; J H Cockburn 1954.
At NG 464 718, immediatley to the E of the Flodigarry House Hotel, in a littel hollow in the hillside, is the spring known as Tobar Kiltavie. The hotel proprietress confirmed the name of the spring, but could not indicate the site of the chapel. A perambulation of the area was negative.
No depopulation in the form of ruined houses was seen in the area.
Visited by OS (A S P) 22 April 1961.
