Monument record 668 - CLADH PHEADAIR, SOUTH UIST

NF72SW 2 7353 2048.

(NF 7353 2048) Cladh Pheadair (NR)
OS 6"map, Inverness-shire, 2nd ed., (1904)

Cladh Pheadair - there was no trace of this burial ground in 1914.
The church of Kilpeter (once a parish) stood on the west coast of the parish. It occurs in the records of 1309 as Kilpedire Blisen.
RCAHMS 1928; Orig Paroch Scot 1854.

No trace remains of the burial ground; the knoll on which it was situated is almost entirely under cultivation. No trace of a church could be found.
Revised at 1/10,000.
Visited by OS (W D J) 6 June 1965.

62: Daliburgh/Kilpheder, NF 7357 2050
Unknown dimensions. Surveyed June 1995, pasture.
No pottery. Human bones and skulls reported. Marked on OS map as ancient burial ground. Skulls reported as found whilst excavating potato clamp, possibly on north side of this large sandhill. The sand is clean with no shells.
Parker Pearson and Sharples

Parker Pearson, M and Sharples, N, Dun Vulan Environs Survey, South Uist (Unpublished document).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

OPS, 1854, Origines Parochiales Scotiae, 365-6 (Bibliographic reference). SWE9142.

RCAHMS, 1928, The RCAHMCS 9th Report & Inventory: Outer Hebrides, Skye and the Small Isles, 120, No. 414 (Bibliographic reference). SWE5587.