What is recorded here
Scotland's National Record of the Historic Environment records Colonsay, Cill Choinnich as Chapel (early Medieval) - (medieval), Inhumation(s) (period Unknown). The official map says its point is accurate as follows: NGR given to the nearest 10m. The record does not by itself mean that the public may enter the place.
Cill Choinnich, also known as Colonsay, is linked to Saint Coinneach (Kenneth), a 6th-century Irish monk associated with early Christian activity in the Hebrides. The site may have been a small chapel or place of pilgrimage, reflecting the spread of Celtic Christianity in western Scotland.
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