Saints in Scottish Place-Names

Cill Challuim-chille, eccl. Jura

Grid reference

NR 609 822 (accurate position)

Six-figure easting & northing

160900 682200

Latitude

55.97315708293716

Longitude

-5.832492546847458

Altitude (metres)

10

County

Argyllshire

Nearby places

Tobar Challuim-chille, Jura (Jura) (0.09 miles)

Carn Mhic Eoghainn, Jura (1.82 miles)

Kilchianaig, eccl. Jura (3.68 miles)

Cill Moccu Chormaic, eccles. North Knapdale (5.12 miles)

North Knapdale, parish, aka Kilmacocharmik (5.19 miles)

Object Classification

Antiquity

Ecclesiastical

Is linear feature?

No

Notes

The chapel is at Tarbert on the east side of the island, beside Tarbert Bay. These mark the eastern end of the narrow isthmus (and portage?) between the east side and the western shore of Jura at the head of Loch Tarbert. The distance between the two shores here is only 1.5 km. NMRS records the presence of 'an old burial ground, within which are the ruins of a pre-Reformation chapel'(Name Book 1878). The site has been cleared and preserved. At this site 'A standing stone ... bears on each face a sunken Latin cross, 1.0 m high with an expanded base and square central boss' (Fisher 2001, 136).

http://canmore.rcahms.gov.uk/

Relationships with other parishes

Within Colonsay & Oronsay, parish, aka Kilchattan (formerly)

Within Jura, parish (aka Killearnadale)

Relationships with other places

Adjacent Tobar Challuim-chille, Jura (Jura)

Names

Cill Challuim-chille

Cill Challuim-chille 1843, OS 6 inch first edn.

Saints in this place-name

Columb, Colmán, Commán, Mo Cholmóc, Mo Chommóc, Mo Chumma, Columba, Columbanus etc (ns) (certain)

Columb Cille m. Feidlimid (certain)