Building record MHG4298 - Church, Cille Choirill

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Location

Grid reference Centred NN 3069 8121 (17m by 14m) (Buffered by site type)
Map sheet NN38SW
Old County INVERNESS-SHIRE
Civil Parish KILMONIVAIG
Geographical Area LOCHABER

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See also:
NN38SW0010 Graveyard
J Aitken : 10/12/02
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NN38SW 1 307 812.

(NN 307812) Cille-Choril (NAT)
OS 6"map, Inverness-shire, 1st ed., (1872)

Cille Choiril (NR) (Ruins of R.C. Chapel)
OS 6"map, Inverness-shire, 2nd ed., (1903)

Kil-a-Choireil (church of St. Cyril); a Roman Catholic church and burying - place, the latter containing the graves of the bards Iain Lom and Domhuill Mac Fhuinlaidh, and also the graves of the priests of the glen.
D B MacCulloch 1938; Information from Celtic Monthly, June 1901 and November 1903.

The church and its burial ground are still in use.
Visited by OS (A C) 10 July 1961.

Martin Briscoe has submitted photos of this site to the Highland HER Flickr group. <1>

Martin Briscoe has submitted photographs of this site to the Highland HER Flickr group. <2>

Sources/Archives (3)

  • --- Text/Publication/Volume: MacCulloch, D B. 1938. Romantic Lochaber. Rev. 174-6.
  • <1> Image/Photograph(s): Briscoe, J M. 2008-11. Information and photographs of various sites submitted by Martin Briscoe. Colour. Yes. Digital. via Flickr.
  • <2> Image/Photograph(s): Briscoe, J M. 2008-11. Information and photographs of various sites submitted by Martin Briscoe. Colour. Yes. Digital. via Flickr.

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Record last edited

Mar 21 2012 11:19AM

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