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Desk Based Assessment
Date 28 March 1969
Event ID 1011104
Category Recording
Type Desk Based Assessment
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1011104
HW83SW 1 8091 3235
(HW 8091 3235) St. Ronan's Church (NR)
OS 6" map 1965.
St. Ronan's Church, possibly so dedicated from an association with St. Ronan's Chapel at Europie (NB56NW 2) of which it may have formed a hermitage, originated as a small, rectangular, corbelled oratory of Irish type, with its surrounding cashel, possibly in the 7th or 8th century.
Two obscure mounds to the north of the church may be early cells, but otherwise there are no stone structures within the cashel. What may have been a slab shrine is partly exposed a few yards NW of the NW corner of the oratory.
During the Norse Christian period and probably about the 13th century a nave was added to the west end of the oratory. A stone cross of this period from near the church is now at Teampull Mholiudh, Europie (NB56NW 3). The area to the west and SW of the church is largely occupied by burials marked by small head-stones, some of them roughly cross-shaped. A prominent feature is the 'Ness Shepherd's Stone', an ornate 19th century stone slab.
Information from OS (ES) 28 March 1969
Sources: N C Nisbet and R A Gailey 1960
