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Adding local short description: "Island in the Outer Hebrides, Scotland", overriding Wikidata description "island in Outer Hebrides, Scotland, UK"

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{{Short description|Island in the Outer Hebrides, Scotland}}
{{Distinguish|text=a tidal island in Loch Portree, [[Isle of Skye]],or the island (on the river Snizort, also in Skye) upon which stands the ruin of [[Snizort Cathedral]], or the poetic name for [[Iona]]}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}}
{{Infobox Scottish island
|coordinates = {{coord|58.11|-6.44|display=inline}}
|location_map=Scotland Outer Hebrides
|caption=Eilean Chaluim Chille shown within the Outer Hebrides
|GridReference=NB385215
|celtic name=Calum Cille
|norse name=
|meaning of name= island of [[Saint Columba]]
|area=110 ha<ref name=Rick>[http://www.argyll-yachtcharters.co.uk/Scottish%20Islands.pdf Rick Livingstone’s Tables of the Islands of Scotland] (pdf) Argyll Yacht Charters. Retrieved 12 Dec 2011.</ref>
|area rank= 144
|highest elevation= Creag Mhor 43 m
|Population=0
|population rank=
|main settlement=
|island group=[[Lewis and Harris]]
|local authority=[[Na h-Eileanan Siar]]
|references=<ref>2001 UK Census per [[List of islands of Scotland]]</ref><ref>[http://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/ Ordnance Survey]</ref>
}}
'''Eilean Chaluim Chille''' ([[Scottish Gaelic|Gaelic]]: island of [[Saint Columba]], Calum Cille) is an unpopulated island in the [[Outer Hebrides]].

It lies off the east coast of [[Isle of Lewis|Lewis]] at the mouth of [[Loch Erisort]]. The island reaches a height of 43m (141 feet) in the northeast.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Eilean Chaluim Chille from The Gazetteer for Scotland|url=https://www.scottish-places.info/features/featurefirst1963.html|access-date=2021-09-14|website=www.scottish-places.info|language=en-gb}}</ref> At low tide Eilean Chaluim Chille is connected by a causeway to the mainland of Lewis at Crobeag. There are two lochs in the centre of the island.<ref>{{Cite web|date=2019-12-10|title=Eilean Chalium Chille|url=https://www.islandeering.com/islands/eilean-chalium-chille/|access-date=2021-09-14|website=Islandeering|language=en-GB}}</ref>

==History==
At the southern end of the island lie the ruins of Teampall Chaluim Chille ([[St Columba]]'s Church).<ref>{{Cite web|title=ST. COLUMB'S CHURCH, EILEAN CHALUIM CHILLE, LEWIS {{!}} Hebridean Connections|url=https://www.hebrideanconnections.com/subjects/32194|access-date=2021-09-14|website=www.hebrideanconnections.com}}</ref> Local tradition has it as the site where Columban monks first arrived in Lewis. Another tradition is that it was built by a man named Columb Kill.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Barrowman|first=Rachel C.|last2=Francoz|first2=Charlotte|last3=Hooper|first3=Janet|last4=Rennie|first4=Christine|last5=Tompsett|first5=Gary|date=2020-02-17|title=Chapel-sites on the Isle of Lewis: Results of the Lewis Coastal Chapel-sites Survey|url=http://journals.socantscot.org/index.php/sair/article/view/10286|journal=Scottish Archaeological Internet Reports|language=en|volume=88|pages=1–134|doi=10.9750/issn.2056-7421.2020.88|issn=2056-7421|doi-access=free}}</ref>

It is cited in a report of 1549 as the main place of worship for the parish of [[Lochs, Outer Hebrides|Lochs]]. There was probably a church there from the medieval period. The cemetery was in use until 1878. Eilean Chaluim Chille is protected by [[Historic Environment Scotland]] as a [[scheduled monument]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.lochslewis.org/content/view/65/39/ |title=Cromore Village |publisher=Lochs Community |access-date=2007-12-12 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20071209093923/http://www.lochslewis.org/content/view/65/39/ |archive-date=2007-12-09 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
[[File:Chaluim Chille Causeway.jpg|thumb|none|Causeway to Eilean Chaluim Chille]]

==Footnotes==
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{{Commons category|Eilean Chaluim Chille}}
{{Lewis and Harris}}
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{{Coord|58|06.3|N|6|26.3|W|display=title|region:GB_type:isle_source:GNS-enwiki}}

[[Category:Islands off Lewis and Harris]]
[[Category:Uninhabited islands of the Outer Hebrides]]

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