Barvas, parish (Lewis)

Grid reference

NB 353 517 (accurate position)

Six-figure easting & northing

135300 951700

Latitude

58.37386007880382

Longitude

-6.52797883197859

Nearby places

Cladh Mhuire, Barvas (Lewis) (0 miles)

St Mary's Church, Barvas (Lewis) (0 miles)

Teampull Pheadair, (Siadar) Barvas (Lewis) (2.56 miles)

Tobar Aindreas, Barvas (Lewis) (2.78 miles)

Teampull Eoin, Bragar, Barvas (Lewis) (4.38 miles)

Object Classification

Parish (extant in 1975)

Notes

NGR for Cladh Mhuire, the location of the earlier church of the parish. OS 6 inch 1st edn shows a manse of the established church close to a modern church building at NB365014.

Relationships with other parishes

Contains Ness, former parish, Barvas (Lewis)

Relationships with other places

Contains Cladh Mhicheil, Barvas (Lewis)

Contains Cladh Mhuire, Barvas (Lewis)

Contains Leitir Eòin, Barvas (Lewis)

Contains Rona, island Barvas

Contains Rona, island Barvas

Contains St Mary's Church, Barvas (Lewis)

Contains St Moluag's Church, Barvas (Lewis)

Contains St Ronan's Church, Barvas (Rona)

Contains St Ronan's Well, Barvas (Lewis)

Contains Teampull Bhrighid, Barvas (Lewis)

Contains Teampull Eoin, Bragar, Barvas (Lewis)

Contains Teampull nan Crò Naomh, Barvas (Lewis)

Contains Teampull Pheadair, (Siadar) Barvas (Lewis)

Contains Teampull Pheadair, Barvas (Lewis)

Contains Teampull Rònaidh, eccles. Barvas (Lewis)

Contains Teampull Thòmais, Barvas (Lewis)

Contains Tobar Aindreas, Barvas (Lewis)

Contains Tobar Bhrighid, Barvas (Lewis)

Contains Tom Dhonnachaidh, Barvas (Lewis)

Parish TLA

BVS

County

Ross-shire

Medieval diocese

Isles

Parish notes

One of the 4 parishes of Lewis described by Archdeacon Monro in 1549, the parsonage appears to have remained independent (Monro W.I. 61, 63; RSS ii no.2045; Dunvegan i, 34). Cowan 1967, 15.