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Date 20 July 1971

Event ID 962264

Category Documentary Reference

Type External Reference

Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/962264

1160-1210. Gothic. Rubble, much dilapidated. Roofless. Fragmentary

remains.

CHURCH: Nave, N. Transept (late 13th Cent) Chancel (with plaque

commemorating founders; grave-slabs with effigies of knights, priests, etc.;

standing cross).

CLOISTERS REFECTORY Other conventual buildings are represented by

mounds of debris.

OSA NSA TSA RCHMS INV 296 Argyll C.C. List C & D Arch Vol III,

pp.198

White 'Archaeological Sketches - Kintyre' pp.142-179 (ills) T Harvey

Thomson 'Ancient Chapels' pp 53-60 (ill). Easson 'Mediaeval Religious

Houses' p 66.

Scheduled Monument 3645. Re-scheduled area27 January 2005.

Ruin. Originally a House of Cistercian Monks founded by Somerled

Macdonald, Lord of Kintyre, and continued by his son, Reginald. Deserted

c.1470. James IV tranferred its lands to Bishopric of Argyll 1507-8.

Many stones removed in 18th century for building of Saddell House and

offices.

Information from Historic Scotland, 20 July 1971

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