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Latitude: 58.2627 / 58°15'45"N
Longitude: -6.8603 / 6°51'37"W
OS Eastings: 115060
OS Northings: 940735
OS Grid: NB150407
Mapcode National: GBR 96GW.LGL
Mapcode Global: WGX1D.LLD3
Entry Name: Beinn an Teampuill, chapel & graveyard, Little Bernera
Scheduled Date: 20 January 2004
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
Source ID: SM11088
Schedule Class: Cultural
Category: Ecclesiastical: burial ground, cemetery, graveyard
Location: Uig
County: Na h-Eileanan Siar
Electoral Ward: Sgir'Uige agus Ceann a Tuath nan Loch
Traditional County: Ross-shire
The monument comprises a chapel within an enclosed, disused graveyard, as well as what may be the remains of a second chapel nearby. It is sited on the east side of the island of Little Bernera, on a small rise overlooking a sandy beach.
At the higher, S end of the graveyard are the turf-covered footings of a chapel orientated E-W and measuring approximately 6.3m by 3.2m internally. This has been partially cleared out, apparently in the early 1990s. About 30m to the NE on a low headland outside the graveyard are the amorphous footings of an indeterminate structure, possibly the second of two chapels that Martin Martin mentions being on Little Bernera in the late seventeenth century (dedicated to St Donnans and St Michael). Most of the burial markers are marked by simple head and foot stones. A later burial aisle has been built into the wall on the S side of the graveyard and there are a number of other more recent burial monuments. A nearby placename is Buaile Pabanish.
The area to be scheduled is subcircular on plan, measuring 78m from N to S by 70m transversely, to include the chapel, its graveyard, the possible second chapel and an area around in which evidence relating to their construction and use may survive, as marked in red on the accompanying map extract. Excluded from the scheduling are the above ground remains of the nineteenth-century and later burial aisles, the modern retaining sea wall, and all named burial monuments.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
The monument is of national importance because of its potential to provide information about the development of the church in the Western Isles. Given the nearby Pabay place-name, there is the possibility that there was an early medieval chapel on this site. There is also the potential to shed light on the interaction between natives and incoming Norse inhabitants, and their religious beliefs.
Source: Historic Environment Scotland
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Source: Historic Environment Scotland
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