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Skye, Raasay, St Maol-luag's Chapel

Cross Slab (early Medieval)

What is recorded here

Scotland's National Record of the Historic Environment records Skye, Raasay, St Maol-luag's Chapel as Cross Slab (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.
Probably dating to the early medieval period, this cross slab may have been associated with the chapel dedicated to St Maol-luag, a 6th-century Irish monk and missionary linked to the region. Such slabs often served a Christian liturgical or commemorative function, reflecting the spread of early Christianity in the Scottish Highlands.

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