Monument record 1435 - CILLE BHRIANAN, UINESSAN, VATERSAY

NL69NE 4 6644 9570.

(NL 6644 9570) Cille Bhrianain (NR) (Site of). Grave Yard (NAT).
OS 6"map, Inverness-shire, 2nd ed., (1904)

Cille Bhrianan, an old burial ground containing the foundations of an old church of stone and lime which is orientated ENE/ WSW and is about 37ft. long by 16 1/2ft. broad externally.
The place is known as Caibeal Moire nan Ceann (Chapel of Mary of the Heads), a name connected with a legend attached to the place.
RCAHMS 1928, visited 12 June 1915.

Only the S and part of the E and W walls of the burial ground remain as slight, grass-covered, banks of earth and stone. No grave-stones
remain.
The grass-covered foundations of the chapel are as described above. Visited by OS (N K B) 24 May 1965.

VN133: An EDM plan has been made of this structure and its immediate surroundings. The medieval chapel sits on a mound from which rabbit infestation produces midden material including handmade pottery of Iron Age type. The masonry structure is crumbling and the rabbit activity may undermine and destroy the rather flimsy walls.
NMRS MS 595/11, 5

40: Cille Bhriannain (VN 133)
The much reduced and embedded remains of a small chapel 11 x 5m, with tracing of a low banked enclosure. Rabbit activity reveals an underlying site producing shells and handmade pottery of probably Iron Age date. (MP.3).
Brannigan & Grattan 1998, 40

VN133 (NL665957) The slight remains of Cille Bhrianian. The mediaeval chapel, 11 x 5 m, sits on a mound from which rabbit infestation produces midden material including reddish-brown gritty handmade pottery, porbably of Iron Age type.
Brannigan and Foster 2000, 47

RCAHMS, 1928, The RCAHMCS 9th Report & Inventory: Outer Hebrides, Skye and the Small Isles, 137, No. 464 (Bibliographic reference). SWE5587.

Keith Branigan & John Grattan, 1998, Coastal Assessment Survey Barra and Vatersay (Bibliographic reference). SWE41024.

Keith Branigan & Patrick Foster, 2000, From Barra to Berneray: Archaeological Survey and Excavation in the Southern Isles ... (Bibliographic reference). SWE41033.