Monument record MHG5100 - The Chapel

NG45NW 5 4373 5877.

Foundations of Chapel at junction of burns about 1 mile NE of Glenhinnisdale.
RCAHMS 1928.

The junction of the streams Lon Coire Chaiplin and Lon Mhia has always been known locally as 'The Chapel' (Information from Murdoch Maclean, Glennachdarach) At this place are the remains of an oblong, dry stone building orientated E-W and measuring internally 6.0m x 3.0m. The walls which are made of slabs rather than rough boulders are 1.5m thick, and the wall corners, where visible at the W end, show square. There is an entrance at the W end of the N wall. The building, although turf and heather covered and almost destroyed at the SE corner, is obviously of better construction than the usual deserted Skye house, an example of which lies to the E. There are a number of ruined shielings in the area of single and double-cell construction, but now wholly turf-covered. Visited by OS (C F W) 2 May 1961.