An Coinneachan

NM92NW 17 9090 2825.

(NM 9090 2825) Chapel and Burial Ground (NR) (remains of)

OS 1:10,000 map, (1975)

NM 909 284. 'Strong wall encloses area 44 feet by 50 feet; inside is a mound of stones 10 feet in diameter' (Lorn Archaeol Soc 1967).

Smith (R A Smith 1875) describes an old burying ground at a spot called Cleigh na h-annait, ('burial ground of the church'), on the hillside above 'Diarmid's Pillar' (NM92NW 2) It had a rough stone wall round it and contained two small cairns.

R A Mith 1879; 1875; Lorn Archaeol Soc 1967.

On a sheltered shelf at NM 9090 2825 is a sub-oval enclosure. The tumbled wall, grass and bracken covered, consists of large boulders interspersed by small stones with little evidence of facing remaining. The width of the wall varies from 1 to 2 metres and it is up to 0.6 metres in height. There is an entrance 0.9 metres wide in the NE.

Inside the enclosure, towards the SE, is a circular heap of loose stones, 3.8 metres in diameter and 0.2 metres high. On the west side, there is a low, heather-covered mound measuring about 7.5 metres E-W by 4 metres, and 0.3 metres in height. Only two stones protrude from it. The orientation and size of this mound suggest a chapel and the circular heap of stones could possibly be the remains of a cell. The enclosure itself has been levelled and revetted on the west side. Early cultivation, in the form of rig-and-furrow, runs up to and adjoins the enclosure wall which appears to pre-date the cultivation.

The situation and character of the site suggest that this is an early chapel with burial ground and can be equated with the 'Cleigh na h-annait' described by Smith.

Surveyed at 1:2500 scale.

Visited by OS (D W R) 3 September 1971.