Map Reference: Kenovay 6?- location unknown - Balephetrish or Kenovay
Name Type: church
Meaning: See Cill-fhinnein in Longships in the Sand.
Other Forms: Kilfinnan - Map of Tiree, reduced from a survey of the island by Langlands, in the possession of His Grace, The Duke of Argyll. Reproduced in The Island of Tiree by William Reeves, Ulster Journal of Archaeology, volume 2, 1854, p 233-244.
Cill-Fhinnain “Local tradition here seems to be correct when it says that only unbaptised children were buried here.” - Handbook to the Islands of Coll and Tiree, Hector MacDougall and Rev. Hector Cameron, Archibald Sinclair, p88.
Cill-fhinnein - ONB p77. "A faint mark of an old burying place in the district of Kenovay, where....?." John Gregorson Campbell, Mr MacQuarrie, Hynish, and Hugh MacLean, farmer, Cornaig.
Cladh Chill Finnein - HAMcC
Related Places: Note another Cill-fhinnein in Balephetrish, ONB p58 JH.
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Languages : GaelicInformants: W. Reeves, Ulster Journal of Archaeology, Vol. 2, 1854, p233-244, quoting Langlands' map.
Informant 2: OS
Informant 3: Hugh Archie MacCallum, Whitehouse, 2/2010
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