Field Visit
Date September 1975
Event ID 921773
Category Recording
Type Field Visit
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The remains of this chapel stand within a burial-ground on the S bank of the Abhainn Gleann na Gaoith a short distance above its debouchment into Loch Indaal. The building measures about 5m from E to W by 2.9m transversely within walls some 1.3m in thickness. These walls, which appear to be laid in clay mortar, stand to a maximum height of 1.2m. The entrance is placed towards the W end of the N wall, facing the entrance to the burial-ground. A low turf-grown footings of an altar. The burial-ground, whose configuration was evidently dictated by the nature of the site, is of elongated oblong plan, measuring about 35m by 11m within a drystone wall some 1.4m in thickness. The entrance was situated at the N corner. Immediately to the SE of the chapel there may be seen a roughly-built stone platform measuring about 2.8m by 2m over all. At the centre of the platform, which may mark a grave, there is a circular depression possibly formed by recent excavation.
Carved Stones.
Two stones of probable Early Christian date (numbers I and 2) (NR25SW 1.01 and 1.02) lie in the burial-ground, while a third (NR25SW 1.03), formerly in the ruined chapel, is now in the Museum of Islay Life, Port Charlotte.
Visited September 1975
RCAHMS 1984
