• Corpus ID: 130310132

Cille Donnain: a late Norse church in South Uist

@inproceedings{Fleming1992CilleDA,
  title={Cille Donnain: a late Norse church in South Uist},
  author={Andrew Fleming and A. E. Mortimer Woolf},
  year={1992}
}

• A. Fleming, A. Woolf
• Published 1992
• History

On a promontory on the western edge of Loch Kildonan, South Uist, in the Western Isles, are the ruins of a church known as Cille Donnain. The paper argues that this church and some buildings on the nearby Eilean Mor (reached by causeways) constituted an important 12th-century religious and political centre, comparable to Finlaggan in Islay; it is suggested that the site may have been the seat of a bishop. The church lies within an earlier dun-like site, which is also described, with suggestions about earlier loch levels here.