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Field Visit
Date June 1970
Event ID 1128131
Category Recording
Type Field Visit
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1128131
NM 762 153 Chapel and Burial-ground, Ballachuan, Seil (Site).
These remains are situated about 400 m W of Kilbrandon House, on a small knoll which rises 2m above an area of marshy ground at the N end of Ballachuan Loch. The SW part of the site is occupied by the turf-covered foundations of an oblong building measuring 5.7m from NE to SW by 2.7m transversely at the NE end and 3.2m at the SW end, within walls which vary in thickness from 0.8m to 1m, and stand to a maximum height of 0.7m (Fig. 103). The masonry, where it is exposed in the inner faces of the SE and SW walls, is of rubble and slate bonded with clay mortar. To the NE there is a sub-rectangular enclosure measuring about 10.7m from NE to SW by 5.5m transversely.
When the officers of the Ordnance Survey visited this site in 1871, they reported that some of the graves could be traced, but the date of the last interment was unknown to the local inhabitants. One informant was able to remember the walls being 'five feet' (1.5m) high (Name Book No. 53, pp.70-1).
RCAHMS 1975, visited June 1970.
