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Keills
Settlement (Period Unassigned)
Site Name Keills
Classification Settlement (Period Unassigned)
Alternative Name(s) Keillmore
Canmore ID 80435
Site Number NR68SE 5
NGR NR 691 805
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/80435
- Council Argyll And Bute
- Parish North Knapdale
- Former Region Strathclyde
- Former District Argyll And Bute
- Former County Argyll
NR68SE 5 691 805
See also NR68SE 1 and NR68SE 2.
Outside the disused burial ground of the chapel of St Charmaig (NR68SE 2) are several rectangular building foundations and enclosures. These clearly indicate a depopulated settlement.
Visited by OS (DWR) 14 May 1973.
Scheduled (with NR68SE 1 and NR68SE 2 ) as 'Keills Cross, cross and church 200m ENE of Keillmore...[comprises] an Early-Christian cross, the church of St. Cormac, a large number of grave stones and traces of a substantial settlement around them.'
Information from Historic Scotland, scheduling document dated 15 March 2000.
Project (August 1994)
It was proposed that a new roll-on-roll-off ferry route to be opened linking Jura directly to the mainland. The suggested route is between Keills on the Tayvallich peninsula and Lagg on Jura.
To fulfill the archaeological requirements of an environmental impact assessment prior to the granting of planning permission, GUARD were contracted to undertake a program of documentary research and field survey focussed on the two slipway locations and including the road between Keills and Tayvallich which may require upgrading. The work was commissioned by the Centre for Environmental Management Studies at the University of Strathclyde and was completed in August 1994.
GUARD 1994
