Poltalloch, Saint Columba's Chapel
Cross Slab(S) (Early Medieval)
Site Name Poltalloch, Saint Columba's Chapel
Classification Cross Slab(S) (Early Medieval)
Alternative Name(s) Poltalloch Estate; Barrnakill; Oib Mhor
Canmore ID 39499
Site Number NR89NW 55
NGR NR 8160 9653
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
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- Council Argyll And Bute
- Parish Kilmartin
- Former Region Strathclyde
- Former District Argyll And Bute
- Former County Argyll
NR89NW 55 8160 9653
See also NR78NE 1, NR89NW 54 and NR89SW 13.
For Poltalloch Estate, St Columba's Chapel (NR 81604 96531), see NR89NW 81.03.
(NR 8160 9653) There are two early cross slabs in the graveyard, on the N side of St Columba's Chapel. One, from Barrnakill, is described and illustrated on NR89SW 13. The other, labelled Oib Mhor, 1927 (NR78NE 1) has on one face a plain incised cross; the other, a wheel-headed cross with pits at the intersections of the limbs, traces of a long shaft, and possibly of the head prolonged above the ring.
M Campbell and M Sandeman 1964.
These cross slabs are as described.
Surveyed at 1/2500.
Visited by OS (IA), 30 April 1973
NR 8160 9654. Two cross slabs as described by Campbell and Sandeman.
Surveyed at 1/10,000.
Visited by OS (BS), 14 April 1977
