Archaeology Notes

Event ID 700380

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NS28NW 1.00 24895 89862.

NS28NW 1.01 centred NS 24923 89916 Cemetery; War Memorial

NS28NW 1.02 NS 2487189888 Caretakers Lodge

(NS 2489 8986) St Michael's Chapel (NR) (In Ruins)

OS 6" map (1924)

A chapel of unknown date stood near Faslane Castle (NS29SW 1). It measured 43 feet (13.1m) by 23 feet (7m), and its stones were removed for building except for the two gable-ends which are still standing. A burying-ground was attached to the chapel at the west end. Until lately, the foundations of a house, reputed to be the priest's house, could be seen between the chapel and the barn. On the same site of the stream, under the bank, is a fine spring called 'The Priest's Well'.

W Fraser 1869

The chapel was apparently dedicated to St Michael. This chapel may be of 13th or 14th century date.

G Chalmers 1890; D MacGibbon and T Ross 1896

The remains of this chapel have been restored, and the south wall rebuilt without mortar, to a height of 1.3 metres.

There are no traces of the old burying ground (the chapel is situated within a modern cemetery), priest's house, or well.

Visited by OS (WDJ) 9 January 1963