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MHG7449 - Chapel - Gill' a' Chaoin-Tearn

Summary

The site of the chapel and graveyard is in this approximate area.

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Grave Yard (NR) - Not on OS 6" 1902 ed.
OS 1"map 7th ser, (1957)

(Name centred NG 907204) 'Gill a Chaoin-tearn (NAT)
OS 6"map, Ross-shire, 2nd ed., (1905)

'Gille Chaointeart' is the site of an old chapel, dedicated to St. Kentigerna, on the south side of Loch Duich.
The burial ground is now disused, the last burial taking place about 1870.
W J Watson 1899 and 1904; D MacDonald, A Polson and J Brown 1931.

The Grave Yard at NG 908 207 is modern. Local enquiries indicate that the old burial ground may have been near the road, where the ground is flat, between the modern Grave Yard (NG 908 207) and Ard-an-eoin (NG 9014 2136), althougn no remains of a burial ground or chapel can now be seen.
The ground rises sharply from the road and is thickly afforested, to within c. 60.0m. of the road.
Visited by OS (R L) 27 September 1966.

The following three sites are in the general area of Cill a' Chaoin-tearn, considered to be a chapel dedicated to St. Kentigern, and associated burial ground. The last burial here apparently took place in 1870, and the location of the chapel and burial ground has now been lost.
NG 9064 2088 Enclosure This is clearly visible as a square enclosure on the aerial photograph, but is on steep and rocky ground and is unlikely to have contained a chapel and burials. It measures 8.5m. square, aligned NNE-SSW, with a possible extension turf dyke towards the shore. It is approximately 20m. up from the road.
NG 9073 2085 Enclosure associated with structure Turf and stone dyke forming an irregularly shaped enclosure, associated with a probable farmstead on the other side of the stream behind the modern cemetery, marked as unroofed on the edition Ordnance Survey map. The lower ground within this enclosure is level enough to have been suitable for a burial ground, but no structure or head stones were visible under the deep bracken cover. This type of turf dyke is not what one would expect to enclose a burial ground. The township marked here on Roy's map may refer to this
farmstead.
NG 9085 2078 Cemetery. This cemetery has only recently come into use. It is not marked on the 1st edition Ordnance survey map and contains no features older than the past few decades. <1>

NGR adjusted based on 1999-2001 vertical aerial photographs. <2>

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Grid reference	Centred NG 9074 2082 (277m by 196m) (2 map features)
Map sheet	NG92SW
Geographical Area	SKYE AND LOCHALSH
Civil Parish	GLENSHIEL

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