What is recorded here
Scotland's National Record of the Historic Environment records Great Bernera, Kirkibost, St Macra's Church as Church (medieval). 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.
St Macra's Church on Great Bernera is associated with St Macra, a 6th-century Irish monk and one of the early Christian missionaries to the Western Isles of Scotland. Local tradition holds that he founded a monastery at the site, and the church is believed to have been built on or near the location of his original cell, though no specific cures or surviving folklore are widely recorded for this particular site.
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