Monument record 730 - LOCH CILLE BHANAIN, WEST GERINISH, SOUTH UIST

NF74SE 1 7685 4138

(NF 7685 4138) Chapel (NR) (In Ruins)
OS 6"map, Inverness-shire, 2nd ed., (1904)

The Commission investigator expresses doubts that the ruined building, on a small promontory on the northern shore of Loch Cille Bhanain, South Uist, shown by the OS as a chapel, is in fact a chapel. It is 54ft long, and 23ft broad over walls 3ft 5ins thick, and is orientated almost due north-south. In 1915, the walls stood about 6ft above the interior. The building is partly built on the site of a dun, the remains of which can be seen outside the south gable and the south end of the west wall. The external diameter is about 47ft NW-SE.
RCAHMS 1928

There is a Chapel of St. Bannan in South Uist.
M Martin 1934

The remains of this building are as described by RCAHMS. No further information was obtained as to the date or its purpose. The remains of the dun consist of the outer face of the south perimeter, formed by large stones and c.0.8m high. A few stones here and there outline the probable course of the remainder of the outer face giving the dun an oval shape, measuring c18.0m NE-SW by c 15.0m transversly.
Revised at 1/2500
Visited by OS (W D J) 13 May 1965

This building is clearly visible on AP'S and is depicted on Balds Map of 1805.
K.Murphy (Archaeologist CnES) March 2020

William Bald, 1805, Plan of the Island of South Uist (Cartographic materials). SWE41242.

RCAHMS, 1928, The RCAHMCS 9th Report & Inventory: Outer Hebrides, Skye and the Small Isles, 120-1, No. 416 (Bibliographic reference). SWE5587.