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Skye, Kilbride, St Bridget's Chapel
Chapel (Period Unassigned), Font (Period Unassigned), Bell (Period Unassigned)
Site Name Skye, Kilbride, St Bridget's Chapel
Classification Chapel (Period Unassigned), Font (Period Unassigned), Bell (Period Unassigned)
Alternative Name(s) St Bride's Chapel
Canmore ID 11450
Site Number NG52SE 3
NGR NG 5896 2029
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/11450
- Council Highland
- Parish Strath
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Skye And Lochalsh
- Former County Inverness-shire
NG52SE 3 5896 2029
(NG 5896 2029) St. Bridget's Chapel (NR) (Site of)
Font and Handbell found AD. 1870.
OS 6" map, Inverness-shire, 2nd ed., (1903).
The Ordnance Survey Name Book (ONB, 1875) says this was an E.C. Chapel dedicated to St. Bridget of which no trace now remains. It also records that in 1870 the present tenant dug up near the site a small hand bell, now in possessioln of Hon. Mrs Stanley, the handle being surmounted by a cross. Also found was a stone baptismal font (See NG52SE 2 for alleged alternative find-spot for hand-bell, etc) According to Orig Paroch Scot (OPS 1854) the church, dedicated to St. Bride, was used as the parish church for some time before the new church was built at Broadford c 1840. However, this can hardly be correct as in 1795 it is described as ruinous (OSA 1795). RCAHMS (1928) says the church may have stood on a rocky mound about 25 yards SE of Clach-na-h-annait (NG25SE 2) but all traces of the building have disappeared and the exact site is not known.
Statistical Account (OSA) 1795; Orig Paroch Scot 1854; Name Book 1875; RCAHMS 1928.
The published site of St. Bridget's Chapel falls on a low knoll on the top of which appear to be the foundations of a small building, but without excavation it is impossible to say more. The discovery of the hand-bell in conjunction with the place-name Annait strongly suggests that this chapel is an early Celtic foundation.
Visited by OS (AC), 17 April 1961.
NG 5911 2040. Watching brief undertaken at Croft 2, Kilbride, Strath, Isle of Skye. The house site covered by this watching brief, lies on a NE facing slope immediately to the west side of the B8083, about 1km to the SE of the village of Torrin. The majority of the sites consists of limestone bedrock with a thin covering of turf. The close proximity of the development to recorded archaeological sites triggered the requirement for a watching brief during the initial stripping of the house site and it's access and services. No archaeological sites or artefacts were recovered during the watching brief.
NMRS, MS/2969 (M Wildgoose, 22 December 2006).
