Monument record MHG5779 - Kilvaxter

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Grid reference Centred NG 3800 6900 (40m by 40m) (Buffered by site type)
Map sheet NG36NE
Geographical Area SKYE AND LOCHALSH
Old County INVERNESS-SHIRE
Civil Parish KILMUIR

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NG36NE 4 centred 38 69.

There was a chapel at Kilvaxter, or Kilvakisa, probably belonging to the nuns of Iona, who held land here in the 16th century.
Visited by OS (C F W) 10 November 1960; Orig Paroch Scot 1854; RCAHMS 1928.

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  • --- 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. . 176, No. 560.
  • --- Text/Publication/Monograph: OPS. 1854. Origines parochiales Scotiae: the antiquities ecclesiastical and territorial of the parishes of Scotland. 2/1. 349, 353.

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Record last edited

Jan 28 2008 12:00AM

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