Monument record MHG31365 - St. Columba's Chapel and Burial Ground, Eilean Chaluim-Chille
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Location
Grid reference | Centred NG 4848 4223 (200m by 200m) (Buffered by site type) |
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Map sheet | NG44SE |
Geographical Area | SKYE AND LOCHALSH |
Old County | INVERNESS-SHIRE |
Civil Parish | PORTREE |
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NG44SE0003 Chapel & Kelp kilns
J Aitken : 10/12/02
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NG44SE 3 4847 4222.
(NG 4847 4222) Chapel (NR) (Remains of)
OS 6"map, Inverness-shire, 2nd ed., (1904)
In the inner bay of Portree, formerly called Loch Columkille, is a small island still called Eilean Columkille. It is nearly covered with stones, which were spread upon it for the drying of sea-wrack, and kilns for burning kelp, so that the soil is nearly hidden. However, the traces of graves, and of a small building standing E-W amy be discerned; and some old people remember one or two interments on the islet (Adamnan 1857). The building, a church bearing the name of St. Columba, is a simple oblong chamber, 26ft long by 16ft wide, the walls being roughly 2ft 7ins at the sides and 3ft 6ins at the gable ends (RCAHMS 1928).
Adamnan 1857; RCAHMS 1928.
St. Columba's Chapel exists as described by RCAHMS, and it has in, addition, a doorway 1.5m wide in the W end of the N Wall. The walls are reduced to turf covered first and second courses of irregular shaped boulders with no obvious trace of mortar. Condition: poor.
Visited by OS (C F W) 20 April 1961.
Excavation of this chapel demonstrated a wall of earth and stone construction (1m in thickness) enclosing an area 6m E-W by 3.5m N-S. An entrance 1.2m in width lay near the W end of the N wall, and a platform base for the altar at the E end. Finds deposited with Skye and Lochalsh Museums Service (Acc No: 1988-4).
R Miket 1988.
Sources/Archives (3)
- --- SHG1536 Text/Publication/Article: Miket, R. 1988. 'St Columba's chapel (Portree parish)', Discovery and Excavation in Scotland 1988, p.16. Discovery and Excavation in Scotland. 16. 16.
- --- SHG1874 Text/Publication/Volume: Reeves, W (ed). 1857. Vita Sancti Columbae: auctore Adamnan Monasterii Hiensis Abbate (The Life of St Columba, founder of Hy). 139.
- --- SHG2656 Text/Report: RCAHMS. 1928. The Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments and Constructions of Scotland. Ninth report with inventory of monuments and constructions in the Outer Hebrides, Skye and the Small Isles. . 177, No. 571.
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Record last edited
Jan 28 2008 12:00AM