Cnoc na CilleNG1951 : Cnoc na CilleNG1951 : Cnoc na Cille, HùsabostNG1951 : Inside the ruined chapel at Cnoc na CilleNG1951 : Ruined Church at HusabostNG1951 : The former church of Cnoc na CilleNG1951 : Mill doorway in former church building"A hill at Husabost containing monastic remains ... the church is [on] a large hill with an inner compound containing two other buildings. These have been rebuilt once or twice, the last time about 1850. The larger of the buildings seems to have contained a refectory or a large hall of two other rooms, subsequently made into five. The small was used as sleeping quarters ... At Husabost ... the road passes a ruined barn, once the chapel of St Francis, and a forgotten graveyard, which is curious in that the tradition places it on a mound or dun ... like the old burial cairns, rather than in the usual patch of low ground." -
information in letters from Mr J. Gaylard to the Ordnance Survey, 24 October and 28 November 1955The group of buildings here, occupying the site of the old burial ground, comprises stables, byre and threshing-mill, formerly a chapel. This latter building ... measures internally 12.5m by 8.5m and is orientated almost due north-south. It is of rubble masonry with two large pointed windows extending nearly to the wall-heads in each of the east and west walls, and a pointed doorway with pointed window above at the north end. The south end has a lancet, now blocked. It was converted into a mill by putting a central partition down the long axis, blocking the top half of the windows and inserting an upper floor (since remove); access to this upper story was by outside steps at the south end. The mill machinery was installed in 1913 and was in use until about 1930. Very little information could be gained about this church but a local informant, Major-General Stuart Martin of Husabost House, said it was dedicated to St Francis and abandoned in the year of the Disruption, 1843. Gaylard's references to monastic connections can be ignored (the information in his letters would seem to be of very doubtful value and authenticity). -
Report of a site visit by CFW of the Ordnance Survey, 4 May 1961