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Jura, Cladh Mhic Iain
Burial Ground(S) (Medieval) - (Post Medieval)
Site Name Jura, Cladh Mhic Iain
Classification Burial Ground(S) (Medieval) - (Post Medieval)
Alternative Name(s) Rudha Na Togsaide; Loch Na Mile
Canmore ID 38273
Site Number NR57SE 6
NGR NR 55173 71347
NGR Description NR 55173 71347 and NR 55205 71329
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/38273
- Council Argyll And Bute
- Parish Jura
- Former Region Strathclyde
- Former District Argyll And Bute
- Former County Argyll
NR57SE 6 5517 7134
(NR 5517 7134) Cladh Mhic Iain (NR) (Site of)
OS 6" map, Argyllshire, 2nd ed., (1900)
This name applies to an ancient graveyard close to the shore, about 1/8 mile NW of Rudha na Togsaide. ("Site of" was not applied till 1900.) Burial mounds called Cladh Chlann Vic Ian lie near the sea, not far from Sannaig. A battle is said to have been fought between the Buies and the last of the Jura Macdonalds, a branch of the family called Chlann Vic Ian. The bodies of the slain were buried together where they fell. (However, of NR56SW 1)
Name Book 1878; D Budge 1960.
Cladh Mhic Iain is an ill-defined, roughly sub-rectangular area approximately 10.0m E-W by 5.0m N-S. The perimeter is marked by a rubble wall - with stone clearance possibly added - 1.5m wide and 0.5m high, with a gap in the south side possibly marking an entrance. There is no clear evidence of burials within the uneven interior. Mounds immediately to the south are natural sand hillocks.
Some 38.0m to the SE is a much more clearly-defined small enclosure. It is believed to be the burial place of sailors aand still-born infants (information from A Buie, Knockrome, Jura to OS). It is sub-rectangular and measures 5.0m E-W by 3.2m within a largely earthen wall, 2.0m wide and 0.5m high. A gap in the NE corner may be an entrance. A few insignificant stones lie within the featureless interior.
Surveyed at 1/10,000.
Visited by OS (J B) 23 May 1978.
Field Visit (August 1973)
(NR 551 713) About 10m above the shoreline of Loch na Mile, and flanking a drainage ditch which runs shorewards about midway between two small unnamed burns, there may be seen the remains of two small enclosures now heavily overgrown with vegetation. The w enclosure is roughly circular in plan, measuring about 5m in diameter, while its
neighbour is slightly larger but of less regular shape. According to local tradition one of the enclosures was used for the burial of sailors and stillborn infants, and the other for members of the Maclan, or MacDonald. family.
RCAHMS 1984, visited August 1973.
