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Field Visit
Date June 1987
Event ID 1082858
Category Recording
Type Field Visit
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1082858
Chapel (site) and burial-ground, Kilmahumaig. This burial-ground is situated on rising ground immediately NE of the road from Bellanoch to Crinan, and 300m from the Crinan Canal and the River Add. A natural mound in a field 150m to the WSW is celebrated as Dun Domhnuill, a moot-hill, and oral tradition in the 19th century preserved the Gaelic words in which Donald, Lord of the Isles (c. 1388-c. 1421) granted Kilmahumaig to the first of the MacKays. A lease of the bishop's teinds of the chapel of Kilmahowmaig was granted in 1591, and in 1654 the teinds of the Arichonan estate were described as pertaining to the chapel. In 1633 the profits of 'the chaplainry of St Colmocus' were confirmed to Niall MacKay as heir to the Kilmahumaig estate. This dedication would be to one of the many saints bearing the Irish name Colman or its variant Colmoc, but an alternative derivation from Cumma or Cummoc has been suggested.
The remains of the chapel had disappeared before 1845, but it was presumably situated on the level ground in the N half of the existing quadrangular enclosure, whose walls are of 19th century date. In the NW angle there is a small private burial-enclosure, probably of late 18th-century date but containing no inscribed stones. The burial-ground contains a number of uninscribed recumbent slabs, but the earliest inscriptions are of early 19th-century date.
RCAHMS 1992, visited June 1987.
