
What is recorded here
Scotland's National Record of the Historic Environment records Keills Cross as Cross (early Medieval). The official map says its point is accurate as follows: NGR given to the nearest 1m. The record does not by itself mean that the public may enter the place.
Keills Cross is an early medieval cross associated with local Christian tradition in Scotland, possibly linked to an unidentified saint or ecclesiastical site. While specific folklore or curing traditions connected to the cross are not well documented, such crosses were often sites of pilgrimage, prayer, or ritual in early Christian Scotland.
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Places near here
Keills, Chapel and GraveyardBurial Ground (medieval), Chapel (medieval) · 31 yd
KeillsEnclosure (period Unassigned) · 95 yd
KeillmoreHouse (period Unassigned) · 242 yd
KeillbegJetty (period Unassigned) · 429 yd
Loch na CilleBay · 712 yd
Liath EileanIslet · 1.4 mi
Eilean nan UanIslet · 1.8 mi
Dun Beag, Castle SweenCairn (prehistoric) · 1.8 mi
Castle SweenCup Marked Stone (prehistoric) · 1.9 mi
Linne MhuirichBay · 2.8 mi
Dùn MòrMountain / peak · 2.9 mi
Cruach nam FiadhMountain / peak · 3.5 miOther information
Photo: Anne Burgess · CC BY-SA 2.0