SKEABOST, Skye.
“In an islet in the river Snizort at this place there is an open burying-ground
Fig. 31.—Skeabost, Skye. East Elevation.
containing a group of five or six chapels, the shell of two pretty entire, the others reduced nearly to the ground. Of the former, the one least perfect ([Fig. 31]) is a featureless building, externally 82 feet in length; the other—probably that mentioned in the Originales Parochiales as dedicated to St. Columba—is externally 21 feet in length, and has a flat-headed window ([Fig. 32]), 2 feet in height and 6 inches wide, in the east end, the west end blank. In
Fig. 32.—Window, St. Columba, Skeabost, Skye.
the larger building there is a basin of a baptismal font, square, with rounded corners.”[65]
“On making the shore one is immediately struck with the intensely ecclesiastical character of the spot. From end to end the islet is covered with the remains of chapels.”[66]
Here we find a group of chapels which were formerly surrounded by a marsh, while fragments of an enclosing wall or rampart can also be traced.