{
    "url": "http:\/\/www.tireeplacenames.org\/kirkapol\/an_cladh_beag\/",
    "data": {
        "place pages": {
            "title": "An Cladh Beag or Cladh Beag Chornaig",
            "township": {
                "link": "https:\/\/www.tireeplacenames.org\/townships\/kirkapol\/",
                "name": "Kirkapol"
            },
            "map": {
                "url": "http:\/\/www.tireeplacenames.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/maps\/kirkapol.gif",
                "title": "lightbox"
            },
            "map_reference": "Kirkapol 13",
            "name_type": "graveyard",
            "meaning": "The small burial ground; or the Cornaig burial ground",
            "local_form": "",
            "information": "Information:Of the 66 legible major gravestones, 55 (83%) have a MacLean husband or wife; 29 (44%) come from Cornaigmore or Cornaigbeg (fairly evenly split). The earliest marked gravestone is from 1495, relating to the Prior of Iona. The Rev Neil MacLean, Rev Hector Cameron and Rev John Gregorson Campbell are all buried here. (Tiree Gravestones website) This appears to have been a high status burial ground surrounding what was the medieval parish church for the whole island from the 13th  to the 15th century. It then became the parish church for the parish of Kirkapol, which extended from Caolas to Balevullin. In 1618, the to parishes were re-united and the parish church moved to Soroby. The original connection with the MacLeans and Cornaig is not clear. There are a lot of people from Cornaig buried there - DMcI.\r\n\r\nAlmost exclusively MacLeans are buried here and the right to buried there was \"defended with fists\" until the 19th century. The only non- MacLean  buried there are \'The Currier\' from Brock, whose mother was possibly a MacLean, and Rev John Gregorson Campbell who was held in very high esteem - HMcP.\r\n\r\n\r\nThere are two cemetries in Kirkapol, Cladh Odhrain (\'Churchyard of Oran\', after Oran of Iona) and the Cladh Beag (\'Small Churchyard\'). There is no trace of the chapel in Cladh Odhrain, but the walls of the chapel in Cladh Beag are still in a reasonable state of preservation. On a knoll east of the Cladh Beag stands the remains of a more ancient chapel. Bailtean is Ath-Ghairmean, Niall M Brownlie, Argyll Publishing, 1995, p116.\r\n ",
            "languages": "",
            "informants": ["Elsie MacKinnon, Kirkapol, 8\/1994", "Donald MacIntyre, Gott, 12\/1995", "Hector MacPhail, Ruaig, 4\/1996"]
        }
    }
}