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Archaeology Notes
Event ID 642126
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/642126
HU56NE 15.00 55511 65489
HU56NE 15.01 c.555 654 Old Parish Church
(HU 5549 6549) RCAHMS mention the church on Kirkness under 'Sites'.
RCAHMS 1946
The present church at Kirkness, which is still in use, bears the dates 1867 and 1767 on its W and E gables respectively, but its date of erection could not be ascertained. According to local tradition it stands on the site of a pre-Reformation church.
Visited by OS (RL) 29 May 1968.
