Archaeology Notes
Event ID 695086
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
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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