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List of names as written Various modes of spelling Authorities for spelling Situation Description remarks
TEAMPULL CHALUIM CHILLE (Ruins of) Teampull Chaluim Chille Mr A Macdonald
Griminish
Capt. [Captain] Thomas R.N. [Royal Navy]
AA Carmichael
044 Signifies "St Columba's Church" and is applied to an ancient church, situated on the west side of Loch Cille in the district of Bal[ivanich] Its walls stands about 8 feet [high] except the east end which has [fallen] down nearly to the ground, its [walls] are about 3½ feet thick.
"The Church of Benbecula said to have been founded about 1390 by Annie or the wife of John Lord of the Isles" Vide Notices of Church said to have been built in the fourteenth century" By F,W.L Thomas Capt. [Captain] R.N. [Royal Navy]

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Benbecula Parish South Uist County of Inverness
Old English

Capt. [Captain] Thomas R.N. [Royal Navy] states in a small descriptive account of 3 churches in N. [North] Uist, Benbecula & Grimisay p. [page] 241
"That he cannot for a moment believe that this church could have been built in the fourteenth century. but that the thinner walls at the east end are probably repairs made by the Lady Annie near that time, as stated by tradition"
also "The older building I believe to be of great age possibly erected under the direction of St. Columba himself, but certainly prior to the Norse invasion at the end of the 8th Century."

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