Tom-eas-an-t-slinnean
Burial Ground (Period Unassigned)
Site Name Tom-eas-an-t-slinnean
Classification Burial Ground (Period Unassigned)
Alternative Name(s) Glen Nevis House, Graveyard
Canmore ID 23723
Site Number NN17SW 2
NGR NN 1205 7278
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/23723
- Council Highland
- Parish Kilmallie
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Lochaber
- Former County Inverness-shire
NN17SW 2 1205 7278.
(NN 1205 7278) Tom-Eas-an-t-Slinnean. Grave Yard (NAT)
OS 6" map (1874)
Near Glen Nevis House (NN 12 72) on a mound to the S of the road, is a little burying ground called "Tom-eas-an-t-slinnean" (Knoll of the waterfall of the shoulder). Here lie the old Camerons of Glen Nevis, who bore the patronymic of MacSorlie, a branch of Clan Cameron now extinct. In a corner of the burial ground is an old iron coffin, or mort safe.
D B MacCulloch 1938
The burial place is still used for the descendents of those already interred there. The modern graveyard is a little further down the glen. The mort-safe could not be found.
Visited by OS (ASP) 14 July 1961
No change.
Visited by OS (NKB) 18 May 1970.
