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Latitude: 56.0195 / 56°1'10"N
Longitude: -6.2379 / 6°14'16"W
OS Eastings: 136004
OS Northings: 688838
OS Grid: NR360888
Mapcode National: GBR BDZT.3JS
Mapcode Global: WGYFP.4YTR
Entry Name: Cill Mhoire,chapel 50m SW of Lochan Chille-moire,Oronsay
Scheduled Date: 14 October 1991
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
Source ID: SM5155
Schedule Class: Cultural
Category: Ecclesiastical: chapel
Location: Colonsay and Oronsay
County: Argyll and Bute
Electoral Ward: Kintyre and the Islands
Traditional County: Argyllshire
The turf-covered remains of this small subrectangular medieval chapel lie some 80m south of the track to Oronsay Priory. It is a round-angled structure, measuring 5.5m east-west by 3.5 north-south within walls 1m thick and 0.35m in maximum height. Although there is no longer any direct visible evidence on site, it is known from early accounts that the chapel lay within a cemetery of cairn-covered inhumations.
The area to be scheduled includes the remains of the chapel situated at the centre of a block of ground measuring 40m east-west by 30m north-south, as shown in red on the accompanying map.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
The monument is of national importance because of the information that it provides, and has the potential to provide by archaeological excavation, on the ecclesiastical architecture, material culture and burial customs of the 5th to 12th centuries AD.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
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RCAHMS records the monument as NR 38 NE 1.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
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