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Publication Account
Date 2010
Event ID 1019847
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Publication Account
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1019847
St Ninian’s Chapel on Isle of Whithorn was traditionally regarded as the site of Ninian’s Candida Casa, although the identification was already under question in the later nineteenth century. The current roofless structure is dated to only c 1300, with nineteenth-century rebuilding (fig 20). Radford’s excavations identified an earlier structure of twelfth- or early thirteenth-century date, but yielded no evidence for a fifth-to twelfth-century ecclesiastical presence on the site. Part of the original enclosure survives as turf-covered footings.
Information from ‘The Scottish Burgh Survey, Historic Whithorn: Archaeology and Development’ (2010).
