Sanday, Holms of Ire, St Colm's Chapel

Scotland's National Record of the Historic Environment records Sanday, Holms of Ire, St Colm's Chapel as Chapel (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.

St Colm's Chapel on Sanday is associated with St Colm (also known as St Columba of Kerry), an Irish monk and missionary active in the 6th century, and is linked to early Christian traditions in the Orkney Islands. The chapel and surrounding site may have been a place of pilgrimage or local worship, reflecting the spread of Celtic Christianity to remote Scottish isles.