Archaeology Notes
Event ID 659418
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
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NH35SW 1 3403 5481.
Place name evidence strongly suggests that there was an early Celtic religious settlement in the area of Carn na h'Annaid, Allt na h'Annaid, Clach na h'Annaid and Cladh na h'Annaid.
W J Watson 1904
The Burial Ground at 3403 5481 is said to have been used for children who had not been baptised.
Name Book 1875
There is no local knowledge of a Celtic monastic establishment in the area. The name, 'Cladh na h'Annaid' refers to a disused graveyard at NH 3403 5481, now visible as a rectangular enclosure bounded by the vague turf-covered footings of a rubble wall. No graves remain, and the date of the last interment could not be ascertained. The tradition regarding the unbaptised children could not be confirmed.
Clach na h'Annaid is a huge natural boulder on the S. side of the road at NH 3395 5473
Clach na h'Annaid surveyed at 1/2500.
Visited by OS (N K B) 24 October 1966
'Annait' is a 9th to 10th c term for a church-site of any kind abandoned during that period and not subsequently re-used as the site of a focal church.
A MacDonald 1973