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Latitude: 56.122 / 56°7'19"N
Longitude: -6.1501 / 6°9'0"W
OS Eastings: 142158
OS Northings: 699902
OS Grid: NR421999
Mapcode National: GBR CD6J.MRK
Mapcode Global: WGZGG.HDL4
Entry Name: Cill Chaitriona,chapel,cross & burial ground,Balnahard,Colonsay
Scheduled Date: 2 October 1991
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
Source ID: SM5082
Schedule Class: Cultural
Category: Crosses and carved stones: cross (free-standing); Ecclesiastical: chapel
Location: Colonsay and Oronsay
County: Argyll and Bute
Electoral Ward: Kintyre and the Islands
Traditional County: Argyllshire
The site comprises the grass-grown ruins of a small oblong building, some 7.1 by 3.5m, with walls 1.5m thick, which is identified as St Catherine's chapel, lying in the centre of a trapezoidal enclosure defined by a turf-and-rubble dyke some 1m wide and 0.5m high, with entrances on the S and E, an ovoid structure (5.5m internal diameter) near the NE angle and an abraided cruciform slab of stone 0.88m high
at the NW corner. The scheduled area includes everything within the enclosure as well as the enclosure dyke itself and a 3m wide zone outside it, making an area measuring overall some 40m E-W by 30m N-S, as shown in red on the accompanying plan.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
The monument is of national importance for the evidence that it provides, and has the potential to provide, about religious life and burial practices in early Christian and medieval times.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
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Source: Historic Environment Scotland
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