Possibly the derivation of the Keil (crofts) area
No direct evidence that Columba was here,
Several sites in our parish
- Chapel at Craigneuk
- Well and Bay by Rhugarbh
1871 Map
OS survey : two walls of the old church building. Scotlandsplaces
Gravestones
Images
Scot Gen Soc records
A chapel with graveyard beside the Smithy at Craigneuk
1630 records a 'chappell called Killchallumchill in Beandirlogh'
Other Local St Columba sites are the well at the old seal life centre
https://saintsplaces.gla.ac.uk/place.php?id=1323704984&name_id=25308
HISTORIC FORM : Killchallumchill
HEAD NAME :Cill Choluim-chille
PLACE :Cill Choluim-chille, eccl. Ardchattan & Muckairn
SOURCE : Geog. Coll. II, 153
DATE OF CITATION :1630 x 1630
FEATURE NAMED IN SOURCE chapel
SOURCE TITLE Macfarlane's Geographical Collections
EDITORS Arthur Mitchell (Sir)
SERIES Scottish History Society
VOLUME 2 of 3
//TO the north is settlement called Keil. A few courses of the wall remain on western side, and a slight trace on the south (1971) (NMRS). The chapel was recorded in about 1630: 'At the Westend of this Countrey of Beandirlogh verie near the seasyde below the Mountaine there is a chappell called Killchallumchill in Beandirlogh one myll from the ferrie off Connell in Lorne. In this chappell toune there is ane high hill round and plaine about, and it is verie plaine above on the toope thereoff. Ane Springand Water is on the one pairt therof And it is likelie to have been one strength or fort in ancient tymes which ancient men and woemen of that Countrey alledges that certaine gyants or strong men hes bein the builders and Inhabitants theroff and there is one kynd of graystone found in this toune, which when it is putt in the water it will not goe to the ground as other stones uses to doe, and such stones as those are not to be had in anie pairt in these countries but in that chappell toune called in English St. Columbs Chappell' (Geog. Coll. ii, 153).
http://canmore.rcahms.gov.uk///
Well
https://saintsplaces.gla.ac.uk/place.php?id=1323361708
TOBAR CHOLUIM-CHILLE
Tobar Chalum-Chille 1843, OS 6 inch first edn.
From this well a small burn flows north 280 metres, to flow out into Port Choluim-Chille. NMRS call this 'a fine spring .. a few yards from Port Choluim-chille, traditionally said to have been used by St Columba for baptisms', but now 'a small pool in an area devastated by fallen timber and forestry operations'.
http://canmore.rcahms.gov.uk/
Handbook of the Church of Scotland https://ia600703.us.archive.org/22/items/handbookofchurch188800rank/handbookofchurch188800rank.pdf
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