Monument record 1157 - Aird á Mhoran,

NF87NW 16 8372 7874.

(NF 8372 7874) Burial Ground (NAT)
OS 6"map, Inverness-shire, 2nd ed., (1904)

There appears to have been a church or chapel at Ardavoran, where a cemetery remains. (OPS 1854) The old graveyard is still used, but there are no remains of any chapel. It was at Ard a'Bhorain that the Macleans of Boreray had their family burial-ground with two walled tombs, and to the north of these are many other graves, unenclosed.
E Beveridge 1911; Orig Paroch Scot 1854.

At the published site there are the scant remains of a possible building, oriented E to W, immediately east of the fence enclosing the burial ground.
Whether or not this is the site of a chapel cannot be ascertained. Visited by OS (R D) 20 June 1965.

As described above, two mausolea, the largest comprising of coursed rubble stone with dressed band, quions and chamfered archway with voussoir. Dressed wallhead capping with cornice, the remains of chicken wire and vegitation sit above this, iron fixings that secured this are causing rust staining to the stone work in various places. The west facing entrance is half blocked by stone work, a small hole in the base is likely for animals. The interior contains wall mounted white marble memorial plaque to John Maclean 1821 and three round decorated carved stone finials (lieing on the ground).
The second structure adjions the first structure along its southern elevation. This appears to be of shuttered concrete construction with rendered walls and a concrete balustrade, the interior has several wall mounted plaques and a collapsed section of walling to east facing entrance ? Numerous grave marker stones are set out in rows, most are unmarked.
There is an obvious stone & turf linear feature that runs from the NE corner of the stone mausoleam, eastwards to the coastal edge (approx 20m); this maybe the remains of an earlier building.
K.Murphy (Archaeologist CnES) 27/05/2021

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

Erskine Beveridge, 1911, North Uist: its archaeology and topography, 299-300 (Bibliographic reference). SWE12876.