Accessing Scotland's Past Project
Event ID 561263
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Accessing Scotland's Past Project
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/561263
No visible traces survive of the Chapel of Dounan, a pre-Reformation chapel that stood within its burial ground on the banks of the River Livet.
Sources suggest that the walls of the chapel were still upstanding in the late eighteenth century, but a century later, only the foundations could be identified. When an Ordnance Survey team visited the site in 1966, nothing could be seen of the chapel. Its burial ground remained in use, though, and it had been extended by 1966.
Local tradition held that a cross-incised stone, which lay near the chapel, marked the resting-place of some of those killed in the Battle of Glenlivet, which was fought nearby in 1594. This stone was described in the late nineteenth century, but more recent accounts fail to mention it, which suggests that its whereabouts are unknown.
Text prepared by RCAHMS as part of the Accessing Scotland's Past project
