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The church of Gigha, which was anciently dedicated to St Calan, was rebuilt in 1923. The ruins of the old church can still be seen standing and some of the stone work was taken from the old building to construct the church as it exists today. During the 16th century the parish of Gigha and Cara was united to that of Jura however in 1641 it was severed from Jura and instead united to the parish of Saddell. Gigha and Cara remained as part of Saddell until 1659 when it was disjoined and united to Killean. A number of years later in 1726 Gigha and Cara was disjoined, for a third time, by the Commissioners of Teinds, but on this occasion it was erected as a separate parish once more. The kirk session sat within the jurisdiction of the Presbytery of Kintyre, until the restructuring of the presbyteries in 1976, when it became part of the Presbytery of South Argyll. |