Monument record 1304 - TEAMPULL NA H'ANNAIT, KILLEGRAY

NF98SE 1 9751 8469 and 9747 8421.

(NF 9752 8468) Burial Ground (Disused) (NAT)
OS 6"map, Inverness-shire, 2nd ed., (1903

(Area NF 975846) The grass-covered foundations of a rectangular building (less than 12ins above ground) lie at the NW extremity of Killigray, on a small promontory rising direct some 20ft above the shore. Almost due E-W, they are 12 x 21ft, the mound of the wall 3 1/2ft thick, with a door probably in the centre of the W gable. The church, and a well (1/4 mile to the S- at NF 9748 8418), are thought to be the Teampull na h'Annait and the Tobar na h'Annait mentioned in the Stat. Acct. Part of the wall of Killigray House (NF 9769 8414) according to local tradition, is all that remains of an old church said to have occupied this site. RCAHMS 1928; OSA 1795.

The footings of a small chapel, known locally as Teampull na h'Annait, measuring externally 8.6m E-W and 5.5m N-S, situated within a disused burial ground. The outer wall face is evident and survives to about 4 courses at the NE corner, giving a width of c.0.9m. The W wall is pierced for a doorway.
At least one grave can be seen within the chapel and there are a number in the burial ground marked by crude head- and foot-stones.
No evidence of a church was seen at Killegray House, now derelict.
At NF 9747 8421 there is a spring enclosed within a drystone wall and covered by a large stone lintel, probably Tobar na h'Annait. It is now disused and silted up, but water still issues.
Chapel and well re-surveyed at 1/10000.
Visited by OS (N K B) 7 July 1969.

OSA, The Statistical Account of Scotland, Vol. 10, 375 (Bibliographic reference). SWE5882.

RCAHMS, 1928, The RCAHMCS 9th Report & Inventory: Outer Hebrides, Skye and the Small Isles, 37, No. 112 (Bibliographic reference). SWE5587.