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Skye, Loch Chaluim Chille

Building(s) (medieval), Building(s) (post Medieval), Causeway (medieval), Monastic Settlement (medieval)(possible)

What is recorded here

Scotland's National Record of the Historic Environment records Skye, Loch Chaluim Chille as Building(s) (medieval), Building(s) (post Medieval), Causeway (medieval), Monastic Settlement (medieval)(possible). 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.
Linked to St. Columba (Colum Cille), the loch's name commemorates the 6th-century Irish monk and missionary who founded a major monastic settlement on the Isle of Iona, near Skye. The site may have been associated with early Christian pilgrimage or monastic activity, reflecting the saint's widespread influence across the Scottish isles.

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