Monument record 1000 - RONAY

NF85NE 10 unlocated.

'There is a little chapel in the island Rona, called the Lowlanders' Chapel, because seamen who die in time of fishing are buried in that place.'
M Martin 1934.

Beveridge infers from Martin's statement 'the existence of a pre-Reformation chapel, and a rocky knoll near the west side of Ronay, north of the only dwelling which that island contains, is known as Cnoc nan Gall' (Hill of the Lowlanders).
E Beveridge 1911.

The site of this chapel was not located.
Visited by OS (J T T) 3 June 1965.

Martin Martin, 1695a, A Description of the Western Islands of Scotland c. 1695, 56 (Bibliographic reference). SWE5082.

Erskine Beveridge, 1911, North Uist: its archaeology and topography, 278-9 (Bibliographic reference). SWE12876.