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Latitude: 56.5377 / 56°32'15"N
Longitude: -5.9934 / 5°59'36"W
OS Eastings: 154577
OS Northings: 745552
OS Grid: NM545455
Mapcode National: GBR CCLF.MHY
Mapcode Global: WGZDD.XY50
Entry Name: Cill an Ailein,chapel & burial ground
Scheduled Date: 17 January 1985
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
Source ID: SM4353
Schedule Class: Cultural
Category: Ecclesiastical: burial ground, cemetery, graveyard
Location: Kilninian and Kilmore
County: Argyll and Bute
Electoral Ward: Oban South and the Isles
Traditional County: Argyllshire
The monument comprises the remains of a chapel and its burial ground and the gravestones in it, in an area measuring 60m north-south by up to 55m east-west or thereabouts bounded by the outer face of burial ground boundary.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
The chapel is of national importance as part of the closely linked network of churches and chapels in Mull and Islay which has a major contribution to make to the theme of imposition in the 13th century of a rigid parochial system on a previously fluid church organisation based on a Scandanavian model. The Northern Isles and Kintyre also display elements important to this theme, but Kintyre lacks the precursors to the parochial system while the N Isles have comparatively little surviving evidence of medieval ecclesiastical structures.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
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RCAHMS records the site as NM54NW 2.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
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