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Archaeology Notes

Event ID 695086

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/695086

NR68NW 1 6447 8706.

(NR 6447 8706) Killchianaig (NAT)

OS 6" map (1900)

This name applies to an enclosed burial ground about 3/4 mile S of Ardlussa.

Name Book 1878

Kilchianaig graveyard is typical of burying places now on the sites of former Celtic churches.

D Budge 1960

There was a chapel of St Catan on Jura.

H Scott 1923

Kilchianaig (local spelling) graveyard is enclosed by a modern wall and is still in use. The earliest dated graveslabs are plain and undecorated, of the mid to late 18th century. There are no visible remains of a chapel, but it is traditionally believed that one existed here.

Surveyed at 1/10,000.

Visited by OS (JB) 11 May 1978

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