Field Visit
Date April 1982
Event ID 1147455
Category Recording
Type Field Visit
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/1147455
Kirkdominae, Chapel NX 253 928 NX29SE
This ruinous chapel stands on a broad terrace above the River Stinchar, 850m NE of Kirkland. The E end of the building has been entirely removed and the surviving fabric incorporates no datable features (the W gable stands to its full height and the remains of the N and S walls to a height of up to 2.6m). The chapel is mentioned in 1404, but in 1650 it was declared 'expedient' that it 'be taken down' to provide materials for the building of a church at Barr (NX29SE 3). Immediately NE of the chapel there are the fragmentary remains of the farmstead of Kirkdominae, abandoned between 1856 and 1894.
RCAHMS 1983, visited April 1982
(Stat Acct., xii, 1794, 82; OS 6-inch map, Ayrshire, 1st ed., 1858, sheet lvi; Paterson 1863-6, ii, 107-9; Chalmers 1887-1902, vi, 539; OS 6-inch map, Ayrshire, 2nd ed., 1896, sheet lvi SE).
