English / Map Form: Kilchattan
Gaelic Form: Cille Chatain
Post Town: ISLE OF COLONSAY
Postcode area: PA61
County: Argyll & Bute
Local Authority: Argyll & Bute
English / Map Form: Kilchattan
Gaelic Form: Cille Chatain
Sources
This name was gathered as part of a local research project on the place-names of Colonsay and Oronsay and was published in a booklet by SNH and AÀA. The Following quote appears in that booklet:
“Kilchattan or Cille Chatain ‘Cattan’s chapel’ – the birthplace of the esteemed Gaelic scholar Prof. Donald MacKinnon – is now a settlement, but the ruins of the original church can still be seen at the top of the current graveyard.”
Gaelic in the Landscape: Place-names of Colonsay and Oronsay (Scottish Natural Heritage 2017): 10
