32978: TEAMPULL VALTOS, LEWIS – CEMETERY (Undated), CHURCH (Undated)

Summary:

CEMETERY (Undated)
Site of church in old cemetery

NB 0891 3673

Full description:

NB03NE 2 0891 3673.

(NB 08 91) Teampull (NR) (In Ruins)
OS 6"map, Inverness-shire, 1st ed., (1898)

Teampull (NR) (Site of), Burial Ground (NAT)
OS 6"map, (1965)

‘Teampull Valtos’ or Bhaltois’ a small, circular, unenclosed burial ground, to which no building is attached, but there is a ruin in it. It is used only by the villagers.
Name Book 1850.

The site of a church in a burying ground. The foundations have entirely disappeared.
RCAHMS 1928, visited 1914.

There is no trace of a church in the burial ground, which is still in use and now enclosed by a rectangular wall.
Visited by OS (R L) 23 June 1969.

no.16
the remains of Teampull Bhaltos are reputed to lie in the now enclosed, old graveyard of Bhaltos. No walling is now visible although the ground inside the graveyard is extremely irregular. The age of the structure is unknown. The graveyard itself has now been superseded by a modern cemetery sited towards the beach.
Armit 1992, 47

References:

Original Name Books of the Ordnance Survey, Name Books of the Ordnance Survey. Book No. 42, 67, 177
RCAHMCS. 1928. The Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments and Constructions of Scotland. Ninth report with inventory of monuments and constructions in the Outer Hebrides, Skye and the Small Isles, Publisher: HMSO The RCAHMS 9th Report and Inventory: Outer Hebrides, Skye and the Small Isles. 29, No. 99
Ian Armit. 1992. CFA, University of Edinburgh Archaeological Field Survey of the Bhaltos (Valtos) Peninsula, Lewis.
1994. ‘Archaeological field survey of the Bhaltos (Valtos) peninsula, Lewis’, Proc Soc Antiq Scot. Part No 124. No.16

Acknowledgement:

Information provided by Western Isles Council Sites & Monuments Record, January 2006.