Kirkbean Parish
Stone Circle (Neolithic) - (Bronze Age)(Possible)
Site Name Kirkbean Parish
Classification Stone Circle (Neolithic) - (Bronze Age)(Possible)
Canmore ID 65355
Site Number NX95NE 24
NGR NX 97 59
NGR Description NX c. 97 59
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
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- Council Dumfries And Galloway
- Parish Kirkbean
- Former Region Dumfries And Galloway
- Former District Nithsdale
- Former County Kirkcudbrightshire
NX95NE 24 c. 97 59
Possibly on map sheet NX96SE.
A 'Druidical temple', similar to that described on NX95NE 23, stood in Kirkbean parish (Kirkbean: NX 97 59) until about 1790 when the stones were cleared away in order to build a farmhouse on the site. (cf NX95NW 6)
OSA 1794; G Chalmers 1824.
There is no trace of this 'Druidical circle', and no knowledge of its probable site, for which a careful search was made during the Ordnance Survey in 1893.
S Arnott 1895.
