Archaeology Notes

Event ID 648849

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NC14SE 1 1652 4208.

(NC 1652 4208) Church (NAT)

OS 6"map, Sutherland, 2nd ed., (1908)

In 1630 Eddrachilles is mentioned as a parish but without a church. In 1728 the parish church was to be built.

Orig Paroch Scot 1855.

Dedicated to St Molrubha.

D MacDonald, A Polson and J Brown 1931.

Eddrachilles: built about 1715, interior recast about 1875.

G Hay 1957.

No services have been held in the church for about the last seven years. It is now administered by Scourie parish but the minister there knew nothing of the history or dedication, nor was he able to say if it would again be used as a church.

Visited by OS (G H P) 20 June 1962.

Nothing further was discovered regarding the history of this former church. It is now a holiday home.

Visited by OS (J B) 19 May 1980.