Monument record 938 - TIGHARRY, ST CLEMENT'S CHAPEL, NORTH UIST

NF77SW 11 7114 7279.

(NF 7114 7279) St Clement's Chapel (NR) (Site of)
Burial Ground (Disused) (NAT)
OS 6"map, Inverness-shire, 2nd ed., (1904)

St Clement's Chapel is shown on Blaeu's map in 1654 as Kilchalma, and referred to in Origines as Kilchalman, names which would suggest a commemoration of St Colman. In the centre of the graveyard are fragmentary remains of the chapel, a building c. 26ft by 18ft with walls c. 2ft high.
E Beveridge 1911; Orig Paroch Scot 1854.

The remains of St Clement's Chapel, a rectangular building 3.8m by 2.6m within walls 1.3m thick, are reduced to rubble banks 0.3m high.
The burial ground, devoid of gravestones or mounds, is sub-rectangular, c. 26.0m by 21.0m, bounded by a turf-covered wall, 0.5m high and 1.7m thick, incorporating natural outcrop along its NE side. There is the vague outline of a rectangular structure, 3.0m by 5.0m, central against the NW wall of the burial ground and within the enclosure.
The dedication of the chapel could not be confirmed but it is known locally as St Clement's.
Surveyed at 1/2500.
Visited by OS (J T T) 15 June 1965.

As described above, site is in stable condition. Covered in heavy summer growth and would be worth revisiting in the winter.
K.Murphy (CnES Arch Service) 11/08/2023

J Blaeu, 1654, Theatrum Orbis Terrerum, sive Atlas Novus, vol. 5, Scotice et Hibernia, Vistvs Insvla Vulgo Viist (Bibliographic reference). SWE10786.

OPS, 1854, Origines Parochiales Scotiae, 373 (Bibliographic reference). SWE9142.

Erskine Beveridge, 1911, North Uist: its archaeology and topography, 295 (Bibliographic reference). SWE12876.