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Islay, Bruichladdich
Burial Ground (Medieval), Chapel (Medieval)
Site Name Islay, Bruichladdich
Classification Burial Ground (Medieval), Chapel (Medieval)
Alternative Name(s) Eaglais Uillean; Cill Uillean; Glencroft
Canmore ID 37416
Site Number NR26SE 1
NGR NR 26774 61478
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/37416
- Council Argyll And Bute
- Parish Kilchoman
- Former Region Strathclyde
- Former District Argyll And Bute
- Former County Argyll
NR26SE 1 2677 6147.
(NR 2677 6147) Chapel (NR) (In Ruins) (NAT) Burial Ground (NR)
OS 6" map, Argyllshire, 2nd ed., (1900)
The remains of an ancient chapel 'Eaglais Uillean', standing in its burial ground, named 'Cill Uillean'. (Both proper names have been cancelled).
Name Book 1878.
Mr J F Fletcher (Gowanlea, Bruichladdich) confirms the gaelic proper names for chapel and burial ground.
Their remains lie in a level pasture field above the shoreline. The Chapel, orientated E-W with a narrow entrance in its W end, measures 6.0m by 4.0m with tumbled walling 0.5m high. The interior is featureless.
The surrounding enclosure, (whose entrance is not apparent) is trapeziodal in shape with maximum dimensions of 23.0m N-S by 22.0m E-W. The tumbled large stone walling averaging 1.5m wide survives to a maximum height of 3 courses (0.7m), on the N side. Although the interior is undulating and featureless, Mr Fletcher had knowledge of shipwreck burials here in the late 19th century.
No early christian finds are reported from this site.
Surveyed at 1:2500.
Visited by OS (J R L) 6 May 1978.
Field Visit (September 1975)
NR 267 614. Only the turf-covered footings remain of this chapel, which measured about 4.2m from E to W by 2.5m transversely within walls about 1m in thickness; the entrance was centrally placed in the W wall. The masonry of the building appears to have been of drystone or clay-mortared construction. The burial-ground is approximately square on plan, measuring about 20m each way within walls some 1.5m in thickness; there are indications of an entrance on the SW side. Within the burial-ground there may be seen a single plain grave-marker*.
RCAHMS 1984, visited September 1975
*The derivations of the name suggested by Graham (1895, 93-4) and (Mackinlay 1914, 89) are unconvincing.
Measured Survey (1 September 1975)
RCAHMS surveyed the chapel and burial-ground at Bruichladdich at a scale of 1:100. The plan of the chapel was redrawn in ink and published at a reduced scale (RCAHMS 1984, fig. 26(C)), with a smaller scale plan of the chapel and burial-ground (159A).
