Monument record 1211 - TEAMPULL BEAG, PABBAY

NF88NE 2 8892 8698.

(NF 88928698) Teampull Beag (NR)
OS 6"map, Inverness-shire, 2nd ed., (1904)

Teampull Beag - 'The Small Church' - was dedicated to St. Moluag, and stands close to the late Teampull Mhoire (NF88NE 1).
Only a small part of the eastern gable and northern wall remains, showing a thickness of 2ft 10ins and a height of about 2 1/2ft. Its length and breadth cannot be ascertained.
Simpson indicates 'Kilmaluag' associated with an early cross or sculptured stone.
Name Book 1878; RCAHMS 1928; W D Simpson 1935.

This chapel is as described above, the SE gable measuring 4.0m in length, and the NE wall now surviving about 2.0m long. A conjectural length for the chapel would be about 6.0m. No trace of a sculptured stone was found, but several grave stones are situated within the chapel ruins.
Visited by OS (R D) 30 June 1965.

Teampull Mholuag is far less well preserved than Teampull Mhoire. The east gable wall is 910mm wide, protrudes 800mm above the internal ground level and 1220mm above the external ground level. The wall is neatly faced, but has slumped at both corners. A short stretch of both the north wall and the south wall are visible. There is no trace of the west gable, but the most westerly line of grave markers lie on much lower ground and this may well reflect the original length of the building (it is also the modern fence line).
Ballin Smith, Hooper & Thomas, 2005, 23-24

RCAHMS, 1928, The RCAHMCS 9th Report & Inventory: Outer Hebrides, Skye and the Small Isles, 30, No. 107 (Bibliographic reference). SWE5587.

W D Simpson, 1935c, The Celtic Church in Scotland, fig. 10 (Bibliographic reference). SWE6946.

Name Book (County), 1998, Name Books of the Ordnance Survey, Book No. 5, 138 (Unpublished document). SWE4254.

Beverley Ballin Smith, Janet Hooper & Jo Thomas, 2005, Pabbay, Harris, Data Structure Report (Unpublished document). SWE41130.