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Field Visit
Date June 1985
Event ID 1082857
Category Recording
Type Field Visit
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1082857
The modern rectangular enclosure of this burial-ground extends to the A83 trunk road, close to the NW shore of Loch Fyne, but the older gravestones are on a slightly higher terrace overlooking the low promontory at the mouth of the Crarae Burn. The Crarae chambered cairn (en.1) lies about 40m beyond the NW wall of the burial-ground, and it is possible that one unusually massive grave-marker has been removed from the cairn-material.
The burial-ground is evidently of Early Christian origin (see carved stones, infra), and Watson suggested a possible dedication to Eibhinn (Old Irish, Aibind), a female saint associated with St Bride (en.2). This rare commemoration gains some support from the frequency of dedications to the latter saint in this area (Nos. 50-8). There are, however, no traces of an early enclosure, or of the supposed medieval chapel which in the 19th century was believed to have preceded Kilneuair (No. 81) as the main church of Glassary parish (en.3*).
At the highest point of the burial-ground there stands a rectangular enclosure measuring 6.9m by 6.3m over lime-mortared rubble walls up to 2.8m in height which terminate in a bevelled coping above a projecting cornice of schist slabs. In the S wall is a blocked doorway with sandstone dressings, whose lintel bears the incised date 1727. Set into this doorway is a schist panel erected in 1874 to commemorate Archibald Campbell of Knockbuy (1693-1790) 'and other members of the Knockbuy and Kilberry families, who are buried here' (en.4). The internal wall-faces incorporate a series of blank recesses but there are no identifiable funerary monuments.
RCAHMS 1992, visited June 1985
[see RCAHMS 1992 No. 63 for a description of funerary monuments and other carved stones]
