Archaeology Notes

Event ID 808459

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NR46NW 4 4031 6948.

(NR 4031 6948) Cill Eileagain (NR) Chapel (NR) (Site of)

OS 6" map, Argyllshire, 2nd ed., (1900)

The name 'Cill Eileagain' refers to an old burial ground (ONB 1878), about 50ft square, with the remains of a chapel at its centre. The chapel, orientated NNE, measures 16ft by 10 1/2ft internally. A 'Pillow stone' 15ins by 13ins, found not long before 1972 at or near this chapel, bears an incised cross, dateable to between the 9th and 11th century. Other graveslabs are of 14th century and later dates.

Name Book 1878; F Celoria 1959; W D Lamont 1972.