Teampull na Trionaid

[3] During the Scottish Reformation, however, the families of Roman Catholic priests and those of the tacksmen and Clan Chiefs all attempted to claim Church lands for their own.

Muir stated in 1867 that he was told 'that one Macpherson, an octogenarian living at Cladach Cairinis, remembers having seen, when a boy, stones figured with angels, armed men, animals, etc.'

Carmichael also states that there was formerly a pinnacle on the east gable, with the figure of a three-headed giant on the top, presumably representing the Trinity, but that too had long gone.

One stone, carved in the shape of a human head, has been preserved, and is now in the museum of Taigh Chearsabhagh in Loch nam Madadh.

Kenneth MacLeod of Gigha, who collaborated with Marjory Kennedy-Fraser in collecting Scottish Gaelic songs, wrote in 1907, "In the early days of the nineteenth century, the North Uist people, on a day still spoken of, reverently laid in their Temple of the Trinity an unknown body washed ashore by the flowing tide: at twilight a mysterious-looking barge glided into the bay, three of its crew marched up silently to the temple, opened the newly-made grave, carried off the body, and then disappeared forever into the darkness and the great open sea.