Islay, Cill Luchaig
Burial Ground (Early Medieval) - (Medieval)
Site Name Islay, Cill Luchaig
Classification Burial Ground (Early Medieval) - (Medieval)
Canmore ID 37538
Site Number NR34NE 16
NGR NR 39029 45247
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/37538
- Council Argyll And Bute
- Parish Kildalton And Oa
- Former Region Strathclyde
- Former District Argyll And Bute
- Former County Argyll
NR34NE 16 3902 4524.
(NR 3902 4524) Cill Luchaig (NR) (Site of) (NAT)
OS 6" map, Argyllshire, 1st ed., (1882)
The site of an ancient burial ground.
Name Book 1878.
A bracken over grown circle of stones or boulders, about 15ft to 20ft in diameter, which is locally regarded as a burial place. There is no record or tradition of a chapel in the area. An old farm or croft a little to the north was known as Cuil Luchaig.
F Celoria 1960.
Comparison with Clach Mo Luchaig at Fortingal suggests that Cill Luchaig may contain a commemoration of one of the saints named Luchare, Luchta or Lochein, but Watson (1926) does not mention this site.
W J Watson 1926.
This site, which was identified in 1878 as that of an 'ancient burial ground', (Ordnance Survey Name Book) is situated in a larch-wood 260m ENE of Laphroaig Distillery, and at the foot of the S rock-face, some 8m in height, of Cnoc Luchaig. It comprises an oval enclosure measuring about 24m from SW to NE by 13m transversely within a boundary-wall, now fragmentary, which except at the SE is formed by a single thickness of large boulders. The entrance appears to have been at the E extremity, and to the N of it there is an inner enclosure, 7m in maximum span, formed by a curving wall which abuts the outer wall and incorporates a narrow entrance in the SE sector. There are no identifiable funerary monuments.
Visited April 1976
RCAHMS 1984
There are no remains of this alleged burial ground to be seen. The site falls just within the corner of a fir platation.
Visited by OS (BS) 6 June 1978.
Field Visit (April 1976)
NR 390 452. This site, which was identified in 1878 as that of an 'ancient burial ground', (Ordnance Survey Name Book) is situated in a larch-wood 260m ENE of Laphroaig Distillery, and at the foot of the S rock-face, some 8m in height, of Cnoc Luchaig. It comprises an oval enclosure measuring about 24m from SW to NE by 13m transversely within a boundary-wall, now fragmentary, which except at the SE is formed by a single thickness of large boulders. The entrance appears to have been at the E extremity, and to the N of it there is an inner enclosure, 7m in maximum span, formed by a curving wall which abuts the outer wall and incorporates a narrow entrance in the SE sector. There are no identifiable funerary monuments.
Visited April 1976
RCAHMS 1984
Measured Survey (2 April 1976)
RCAHMS surveyed the burial-ground at Cill Luchaig at a scale of 1:100. The plan was redrawn in ink and published at a reduced scale (RCAHMS 1984, fig. 166C).
