Monument record 611 - CILLE-BHRIDE, WEST KILBRIDE, SOUTH UIST

NF71SE 1 7572 1407.

(NF 7572 1407) Site of Cille-Bhride (NR) (Burial Ground)
OS 6" map, Inverness-shire, 2nd ed., (1904)

There was a chapel in the old burial ground at Kilbride but there were not traces of it in 1915. The Name Book (1878) notes that human remains were found when the offices for Kirbride House were built partly on the site.
Orig Paroch Scot 1854; RCAHMS 1928; Name Book 1878.

The old burial ground at Kilbride is now a small pasture field. No traces of foundations or burials are to be seen.
Visited by OS (W D J) 5 May 1965.

76: West Kilbride, NF 7570 1410
20m E-W, 15m N-S, 0.5m depth of deposits, surveyed June 1995, pasture (back yard).
No pottery. Human skeletons found in 1980s by Patrick Morrison of 8 West Kilbride. The site of the church of Cille Bride. Although it is marked on the OS 1:10 000 map, the spot marked is too far to the west.
Parker Pearson and Sharples

Parker Pearson, M and Sharples, N, Dun Vulan Environs Survey, South Uist (Unpublished document). SWE41170.

OPS, 1854, Origines Parochiales Scotiae, 366 (Bibliographic reference). SWE9142.

RCAHMS, 1928, The RCAHMCS 9th Report & Inventory: Outer Hebrides, Skye and the Small Isles, 120, No. 413 (Bibliographic reference). SWE5587.

Name Book (County), 1998, Name Books of the Ordnance Survey, Book No. 12, 114 (Unpublished document). SWE4254.