Numerous ruins and fragments of chapels are found on the west coast of Lewis. Among these, near Gallowhead, the great west headland of the island, stands ([Fig. 43]) Tigh Beannachadh (blessing house), “a not
Fig. 43.—Tigh Beannachadh, Gallowhead.
greatly dilapidated chapel south doorway entire and flat-headed, the masonry very rude and without lime.” “It would seem to be a very old building.”[80]
DUN OTHAIL, Lewis.
On a narrow “shelf, in the face of a high precipice, under Dun Othail, about ten miles south of the Butt, is found the ground work of a chapel, internally 17 feet long and 11 feet 3 inches wide, with remains of the south doorway. The walls are 4 feet thick, and there is no cement used.”[81]
CARINISH, North Uist.
At the south end of the island, Teampull-na-Trianaide (Trinity Church) consists of two not greatly dilapidated buildings of unequal size, the larger and more ruinated one internally 62 feet in length. The only detail,