Monument record 705 - ARDMICHAEL, SOUTH UIST

NF73SW 2 7308 3335 and 7317 3337.

(NF 7308 3335 & NF 7317 3337) Burial Grounds (NAT)
OS 6"map, Inverness-shire, 2nd ed., (1904)

There was a chapel at Ardmichael, South Uist. The cemetery still remains.
Orig Paroch Scot 1854.

There is neither trace nor local knowledge of a chapel at Ardmichael. The burial grounds are still in use, the westerly being Protestant and the easterly Catholic.
Visited by OS (N K B) 10 May 1965.

Name Book notes only one burial ground -still in use - Otherwise no information. But both burial grounds are shown on OS 6"map, 1st ed., (1881).
Name Book 1878.

This cemetery is notible as it comprises of two separate large mounds enclosed within a later stone walled boundary. Lidar imagery shows a large rectangular building on the southwestern slope of the NE mound, which presumibly is the site of the church. The southeast corner of the boundary also shows an obvious square structure. Following a recent site visit it was noted that a recent burial on the south west mound had produced a number of large stones, that were thrown over the wall, these may suggest earlier buried structures; however nothing was noted on Lidar.
KM (CnES Arch Service) 15/11/2024

OPS, 1854, Origines Parochiales Scotiae, 368 (Bibliographic reference). SWE9142.

Name Book (County), 1998, Name Books of the Ordnance Survey, 5 (Unpublished document). SWE4254.