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Eigg, Glac An Dorchadais
Commemorative Stone (19th Century), Cross (Medieval)(Possible)
Site Name Eigg, Glac An Dorchadais
Classification Commemorative Stone (19th Century), Cross (Medieval)(Possible)
Canmore ID 22159
Site Number NM48NE 25
NGR NM 4799 8641
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/22159
- Council Highland
- Parish Small Isles
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Lochaber
- Former County Inverness-shire
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
Desk Based Assessment (10 February 1966)
NM48NE 25 4798 8642
(NM 4798 8642) Cross (NR) (Site of)
OS 6" map (1903)
An ancient cross at one time stood here, and the local people performed a ceremony round it in all funeral processions, well on into the 19th c.
(Information from N MacPherson, FSA Scot)
Name Book 1877.
Field Visit (9 May 1972)
An upright stone 1.1m high x 0.2m x 0.2m, leaning towards the W, stands at this spot. According to M H MacKinnon, Cleadale, Eigg, it was erected in 1880 when a priest died and is known locally as the Cross. The old tradition is not known.
Visited by OS (AA), 9 May 1972.
Field Visit (12 October 2002)
This memorial stone. 1.1m in height, stands immediately E of the road about 70m N of the primary school. The stone is depicted on the current edition of OS Mastermap.
During the 1870s the Ordnance Survey recorded this as the site of a medieval cross: ‘applies to the site of an ancient cross which at one time stood here. The people continue to perform the ‘Dessil’ round it in all funeral processions well on into the present century’ (OS Name Book 13, 16). The site was depicted thus on the 1sy and 2nd editions of the OS 6-inch map (Inverness-shire (Skye) Sheet LXXI, 1879 and 1904).
EIGG01 580
Visited by RCAHMS (AGCH) 12 October 2002
