Site Name: Cille Chiaran, Cnoc nan Gall
Alternative Name(s):
Monument Type: Chapel
Council: Argyll and Bute
Parish: Colonsay and Oronsay
Map Sheet: NR39SE
Grid Reference: 135700, 693300
Canmore Number: 37905
Non-Statutory Register Code: N
WoSASPIN 2502
NR39SE 30 357 933 to 351 929.
(Area NR 357 933) The site of Cille Chiarain or Kilkerran, St Chiarain's Chapel (Ciaran, d. 549). No trace of the chapel remains but human remains have been found in a neighbouring bunker on the golf course.
J de V Loder 1935; W J Watson 1926
(Area NR 351 929) Cille Chiarain.
S Grieve 1923
There is no trace of a chapel at either of the areas indicated. No further information.
Visited by OS (BS) 9 April 1974
Watson, W J , The history of the Celtic place-names of Scotland: being the Rhind lectures on archaeology (expanded) delivered in 1916. Edinburgh.(1926)
Grieve, S , The book of Colonsay and Oronsay: forty-four years of research and discovery in early Scoto-Irish, Norse and Danish history [...]. Edinburgh.(1923)
Loder, J de V , Colonsay and Oronsay in the isles of Argyll: their history, flora, fauna and topography. Edinburgh.(1935)