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Archaeology Notes
Event ID 694457
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/694457
NR26SE 1 2677 6147.
(NR 2677 6147) Chapel (NR) (In Ruins) (NAT) Burial Ground (NR)
OS 6" map, Argyllshire, 2nd ed., (1900)
The remains of an ancient chapel 'Eaglais Uillean', standing in its burial ground, named 'Cill Uillean'. (Both proper names have been cancelled).
Name Book 1878.
Mr J F Fletcher (Gowanlea, Bruichladdich) confirms the gaelic proper names for chapel and burial ground.
Their remains lie in a level pasture field above the shoreline. The Chapel, orientated E-W with a narrow entrance in its W end, measures 6.0m by 4.0m with tumbled walling 0.5m high. The interior is featureless.
The surrounding enclosure, (whose entrance is not apparent) is trapeziodal in shape with maximum dimensions of 23.0m N-S by 22.0m E-W. The tumbled large stone walling averaging 1.5m wide survives to a maximum height of 3 courses (0.7m), on the N side. Although the interior is undulating and featureless, Mr Fletcher had knowledge of shipwreck burials here in the late 19th century.
No early christian finds are reported from this site.
Surveyed at 1:2500.
Visited by OS (J R L) 6 May 1978.
