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Archaeology Notes
Event ID 672680
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/672680
NL58SE 2 5649 8329
For (surrounding) Mingulay village, see NL58SE 16.
(NL 5649 8328) St Columba's Chapel (NR) (Site of)
OS 6" map, Inverness-shire, 2nd ed., (1904)
Supposed site of St Columba's Chapel, with graveyard (T S Muir 1885). Muir, about 1885, enquired about the existence of a chapel on Mingulay. The correspondent replied that the burial ground was in a ruinous condition, and the "oldest inhabitant" did not know of one.
Name Book 1878; T S Muir 1885.
No trace of chapel was found. The burial ground, a sandy knoll enclosed by a low wall of boulders, contains a few modern head stones and crosses, and is slowly being covered by drifting sand.
Visited by OS (W D J) 19 May 1965.
What appears to be the remains of the chapel are visible on the summit of the knoll. It consists of the W end of a rectangular building, 3.0m long and up to three courses high. Further details are obscured by blown sand.
Visited by OS (D W R) 30 August 1973.
