Monument record 711 - KILAULAY, SOUTH UIST

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Site of chapel and cemetery, reputed Viking burial

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Grid reference NF 75290 45860 (point)
Map sheet NF74NE
Island South Uist
Parish SOUTH UIST, Western Isles

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NF74NE 1 7429 4586.

(NF 75294586) Burial Ground (NR) (Disused)
OS 6"map, Inverness-shire, 2nd ed., (1904)

The burial ground is the supposed burial place of a Danish Princess called Aula or Olaff who was caught in a storm and blown to Uist.
Name Book 1878.

A chapel, formerly at Kilonlay, is listed.
Orig Paroch Scot 1854.

The site was confirmed by the present tenant of Kilaulay farm. There is no local knowledge of a chapel or its whereabouts. The limits of the burial ground are no longer traceable.
Revised at 1/2500.
Visited by OS (J T T) 15 May 1965.


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

Name Book (County), 1998, Name Books of the Ordnance Survey, Book No. 10, 84 (Unpublished document). SWE4254.

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  • --- Unpublished document: Name Book (County). 1998. Name Books of the Ordnance Survey. Book No. 10, 84.
  • --- Bibliographic reference: OPS. 1854. Origines Parochiales Scotiae. 2. 368.

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Feb 12 2021 10:20AM

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