Celtic cross gravestones. Cill Chriosd, Strath Suardal, Isle of Skye, Inner Hebrides, Scotland, United Kingdom, Europe.

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Originally the parish church of Strath Suardal was at Ashaig, traditionally founded by Saint Maol Ruadh in the 7th. century Sometime during the later middle ages a new parish church was built at Cill Chriosd (Christ's Church). The earliest historical reference tells us that in 1505 one Kenneth Adamson succeeded John MacGillivray as chaplain, only to be replaced, firstly by Sir John Johenson and then , in 1508, by John Ranaldson. In 1627 the church received its first Protestant minister, Neil Mackinnon. On his appointment on June 19th, he "gave his grite and solemn oath that he sall treuile according to his knowledge, give up to the Clerk of Councell the names of all the Papists he knew within the Isles". In 1840 Cill Chriosd was itself superseded as parish church by a new building in Broadford.

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Location: Cill Chriosd, Strath Suardal, Isle of Skye, Inner Hebrides, Scotland, United Kingdom, Europe.
Photo credit: © Stan Pritchard / Alamy / Afripics
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Keywords: celtic, chriosd, churchyard, cill, cross, europe, gravestones, graveyard, hebrides, kingdom, ruin, ruined, scotland, skye, strath, suardal, united