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Eigg, Tobar Challuim Chille, Cleadale
Well (Medieval)
Site Name Eigg, Tobar Challuim Chille, Cleadale
Classification Well (Medieval)
Canmore ID 22142
Site Number NM48NE 1
NGR NM 47780 88855
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/22142
- Council Highland
- Parish Small Isles
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Lochaber
- Former County Inverness-shire
NM48NE 1 4779 8888.
(NM 4779 8888) Tobar Challuim Chille (NR)
OS 6" map (1903)
An ancient well alleged to have been connected with St Columba (Name Book 1877), a pool in the stream that flows through the plain, situated at the base of a group of rocks.
M E M Donaldson 1923
Tobar Challuim Chille - a roughly square natural basin, measuring about 1.0m square and 0.5m deep, and surrounded with stones. The spring that issues from this basin was used until recently as the water supply for the nearby croft.
Visited by OS (ISS) 5 May 1972
Note (1928)
NOTE.
In a contribution to the Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries on March 11, 1878 (vol. xii., 577-597), mention is made of the following additional monuments:
(1) "Foundations of an island dwelling" in a small loch "lying high up on the shoulder of the Scuir of Eigg, known as Lochan na Mna Moire." The island is apparently that in Lochnam Ban Mora (O.S. 6-inch), the only loch here which has an island; it is inaccessible without a boat.
(2) A cairn, "some five or six hundred yards south from Kildonnan," which provided on excavation the articles in [RCAHMS 1928] No. 2 of list on p. lvi.
(3) A cairn "a few yards further south" with articles in No 3.
(4) Cairn, "Sithean or Sguman-nan-Cailleach," containing "two cists . . . made of flat stones set on edge and laid length wise." Stones of cairn removed to fill up a drain. Sithean na Cailleich on O.S. 6-inch lxxi
The O.S. map 6-inch lxxiii. notes a stone cist just north of Kildonnan Old Church ("Ruins of Chapel," cf. Proc. Soc. Ant. Scot., as above, pp. 584-6); the site of one stone cist found in 1861, and of another in 1864, in Galmisdale; the sites of two crosses (lxxi., lxxii.) and Tobar Challuim Chille ("Columba's Well") in Cleadale (lxxi).
RCAHMS 1928
Field Visit (6 June 2001)
Tobar Challuim Chille (St. Columba’s Well) stands to the W of the road and 27m SW of No. 3 Cleadale. The spring has a stone cover through which the water drains to a small pool formed by an arc of stones. It is depicted and named on the 1st edition of the 6-inch map (Inverness-shire (Skye) Sheet lxxi, 1887; OS Name Book No. 12, 10; see also Dressler 1998, 5).
EIGG01 133
Visited by RCAHMS (AGCH) 6 June 2001.
