St Ronan's Church & village settlement,Rona

Heritage listing

Date Added 05/04/1940 Last Date Amended 19/01/1993 Type Crosses and carved stones: cross-incised stone, Ecclesiastical: burial ground, cemetery, graveyard; cashel; chapel, Secular: field system; settlement, including deserted and depopulated and townships Local Authority Na h-Eileanan Siar Parish Barvas NGR HW 80933 32230 Coordinates 180933, 1032230 — The complex of buildings and remains on Rona includes: the church, or chapel, of St Ronan, dating probably from the 8th century and consisting of a rectangular corbelled oratory with a longer rectangular living-cell, later used as a chapel, attached to its west side; an oval cashel wall of the same date, consisting of an earth and stone bank surrounding the chapel and its cemetery of inhumations, some marked by cross-incised headstones; three domestic complexes, inhabited from the 12th or 13th century until c. 1680 (and in some cases later), each one consisting of a rectangular living room surrounded by corbelled cells and open stock enclosures; a village field system surrounding all these features, and the head- dyke which encloses it. The area is defined by the head-dyke on the north, east and west, and by the sea on the south, and measures overall some 330m (east-west) by 420m (north-south), as shown in red on the accompanying plan.

From Historic Environment Scotland under OGL v3.