Saints in Scottish Place-Names

Cill Mhoire, eccles. (Scarba) Jura

Grid reference

NM 718 056 (accurate position)

Six-figure easting & northing

171800 705600

Latitude

56.18829241900954

Longitude

-5.6781531756926364

Altitude (metres)

5

County

Argyllshire

Nearby places

Kilmory Lodge, (Scarba) Jura (0.26 miles)

Tobar Challuim Chille (Lunga), Jura (2.28 miles)

Kilchattan, settlement KBK (Luing) (2.6 miles)

Kilchattan, ~eccles. KBK (Luing) (2.65 miles)

Kilchattan, former parish, aka Luing KBK (2.65 miles)

Object Classification

Ecclesiastical

Is linear feature?

No

Notes

OS Name Book (1870) records a disused burial ground attached to a ruin called An Caibeal ['the chapel'] supposed to have been a pre-reformation chapel. See NMRS for description of the sub-rectangular burial ground and remains of oriented building. On the shore to the west OS maps show Port a'Chaibeil, 'port of the chapel'. This appears to be the chapel mentioned by John of Fordun in about 1380 (Chronica ii, x): 'Scarba, fifteen miles long, where there is a chapel of the Blessed Virgin, at which many miracles are performed' (ubi capella beatae Virginis, qua multa fiunt miracula).

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

Relationships with other parishes

Within Colonsay & Oronsay, parish, aka Kilchattan

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

Within Jura, parish (aka Killearnadale)

Relationships with other places

Adjacent Kilmory Lodge, (Scarba) Jura

Names

1 head-name linked to this place ?

Cill Mhoire

Kilmore 1654, Blaeu

Cill Mhòire 1880, OS 6 inch first edn.

Saints in this place-name

Mary, Mary the Blessed Virgin, Our Lady (ns) (certain)

Mary the Blessed Virgin (certain)