Field Visit
Date October 1981
Event ID 1138618
Category Recording
Type Field Visit
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St Cyrus 1, Old Parish Church and Burial-ground NO 745 639 NO76SW 2
The medieval parish church of Ecclesgreig stood within the burial-ground on the shore 1 km SSW of St Cyrus village. Although there was probably an ecclesiastical community here at an earlier date the church comes on record between 1172 and 1178, and went out of use in 1632. (See also NO76SE 2)
RCAHMS 1982, visited October 1981
(Stat. Acct., xi, 1794, 105-6; Jervise 1875-9, i, 36-9; Gilruth 1939, 45-9; Cowan 1967, 58; Cowan and Easson 1976, 48)
