Monument record 61 - TEAMPULL VALTOS, LEWIS

NB03NE 2 0891 3673.

(NB 08 91) Teampull (NR) (In Ruins)
OS 6"map, Inverness-shire, 1st ed., (1898)

Teampull (NR) (Site of), Burial Ground (NAT)
OS 6"map, (1965)

'Teampull Valtos' or Bhaltois' a small, circular, unenclosed burial ground, to which no building is attached, but there is a ruin in it. It is used only by the villagers.
Name Book 1850.

The site of a church in a burying ground. The foundations have entirely disappeared.
RCAHMS 1928, visited 1914.

There is no trace of a church in the burial ground, which is still in use and now enclosed by a rectangular wall.
Visited by OS (R L) 23 June 1969.

no.16
the remains of Teampull Bhaltos are reputed to lie in the now enclosed, old graveyard of Bhaltos. No walling is now visible although the ground inside the graveyard is extremely irregular. The age of the structure is unknown. The graveyard itself has now been superseded by a modern cemetery sited towards the beach.
Armit 1992, 47

There is very little to be seen at the site identified ast the site the Teampall Bhaltois. The graveyard at Bhaltos has a very irregular surface, and no graves in the centre, which may indicate a building below the turf. However, there is no sign at all on the surface that there is a building on this site. The cemetery is enclosed by a modern graveyard wall. There are piles of stones and irregular mounds outside the cemetery to the north, and these are clearly the remains of old settlement.
Barrowman 2005, 46

RCAHMS, 1928, The RCAHMCS 9th Report & Inventory: Outer Hebrides, Skye and the Small Isles, 29, No. 99 (Bibliographic reference). SWE5587.

Ian Armit, 1992, Archaeological Field Survey of the Bhaltos (Valtos) Peninsula, Lewis (Bibliographic reference). SWE41031.

I Armit, 1994, Proc Soc Antiq Scot, No.16 (Bibliographic reference). SWE34817.

Name Book (County), 1998, Name Books of the Ordnance Survey, Book No. 42, 67, 177 (Unpublished document). SWE4254.

Rachel Barrowman, 2005, Lewis Coastal Chapel-sites Survey 2004/5 (Unpublished document). SWE41095.