The chapel, Teampull Bhuirgh, described by Canmore as ‘Mediaeval’, measures internally 14m E to W by 5m N to S, with a simple rectangular plan. The lower portions of roughly mortared walls of local rubble stand to about 1m high internally. A window recess is visible in the E end of each long wall. Drifted sand has built up the external ground level to the top of the walls. The remains of the chapel are set into a large flat-topped mound which stands 4m above the surrounding machair. This mound is formed by the sand-covered remains of a settlement which dates back to the later Iron Age, if no earlier, on the evidence of abundant pottery found on its lower slopes.
Teampull Bhuirgh translates as ‘Church of the burg or castle’
As can be seen, it is now extensively vegetated with little masonry vsible in the summer months, other than the cnsiderable pile of tumbled stones at the western end.
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