Monument record 1390 - EILEAN AN TIGHE, SHIANT ISLANDS

NG49NW 4 4183 9766.

Muir notes a burial ground, and the foundations of what seems to have been a chapel of small size, on low, level ground on the W side of Eilean Tighe.
T S Muir 1885.

The area described by Muir, centred at NG 418, 976, is occupid by a shepherd's house and various dry-stone enclosures of recent date. According to the shepherd (who lives on the mainland but has visited the island regularly for over 40 years), a burial ground is thought to have existed at NG 4183 9766, where a human skull was dug up about 30 years ago, but no trace of it remains. He knew nothing of the chapel described by Muir but stated that visitors to the island had identified an alleged chapel amongst the buildings of the deserted township at NG 419 972. No evidence of this chapel could be found.
Visited by OS (N K B) 7 July 1969.

desk-top assessment and site visit
Barrowman 2005, 71-72

full topographic survey, 2005, by Janet Hooper
Barrowman 2006, 19-23

T S Muir, 1885, Ecclesiological notes on some of the Islands of Scotland, 56 (Bibliographic reference). SWE5959.

Rachel Barrowman, 2005, Lewis Coastal Chapel-sites Survey 2004/5 (Unpublished document). SWE41095.

Rachel Barrowman, 2006, Lewis Coastal Chapel-Sites Survey: Topographic Survey 2005 (Unpublished document). SWE41122.