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Reference
Date 1955
Event ID 582062
Category Documentary Reference
Type Reference
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/582062
This cross, which is engraved on a standing stone, stands in a field at East St Colmac Farm. Dr Hewison in his ‘Bute in Olden Times’ (Vol.1 p116) calls it the cross of Kilmachalmaig. The chapel which once stood beside the cross was dedicated to St Colman or Colmac who was Bishop of Dromore and, like many of the early preachers, was educated in Ireland. He lived in the 6th century. Divine worship was continued on the site till long after the Reformation. In 1591 we hear of Patrick McQueine, pastor of Kingarth, having Killumcogarmick added to his charge. No traces of the chapel are to be seen: about 160 years ago the farmer took the remaining stones to build his steading. Nothing of the cemetery remains either, though something of it could be seen up to the end of the 18th century. The decoration on the cross is unusual and it is not easy to ascribe it to any particular century.
D N Marshall 1955
