A Chill Mhor, the great cell, refers to the old church, now a ruin beside the present church, a large rectangular whitewashed building with lancet windows. Designed by John Mackenzie and built in 1876, its Victorian furnishings are complete. Notable monuments flank the pulpit, including one of 1768 to Sir James Macdonald. Close by is Sabhal M’r Ostaig, a steading of 1840 converted into a Gaelic college.
Sleat Parish Church (1876) is located here, with the ruins of the Old Parish Church behind (1631–1876). A former Minister, Rev. John Forbes (1818–63) was a noted Gaelic scholar who wrote a Gaelic grammar and investigated the deaths of three girls from the parish who were taken to the cotton mills of Manchester as forced-labor and published his findings in a book , Weeping in the Isles (1853). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kilmore,_Skye
Kilmore, on the Sleat peninsula of the Isle of Skye, is a small hamlet and long-standing religious site known for Sleat Parish Church, earlier church ruins, and evidence of early Christian activity. Local tradition links the area to St Columba, while its churches reflect centuries of Highland religious history, clan conflict, and Clan Donald patronage. The present church, built in 1876, was restored after structural problems in the 1980s and remains an important part of the area’s cultural and ecclesiastical heritage. (source: https://grokipedia.com/page/kilmore_skye)
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