Archaeology Notes

Event ID 650333

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NC70NE 24 78359 09817

(NC 7835 0980) Cladh Maireannach (NAT)

OS 1:10,000 map, (1970).

Location formerly entered as NC 7835 0980.

See also NC70NE 39.

Cladh Maireannach - Applied to a graveyard it signifies the 'Everlasting Burying Place'.

Name Book 1871.

Cill Mhearain, St Mirren's Church, noted by Watson as one of the seven churches of Strathbrora, probably stood in this burial ground.

W J Watson 1926.

This graveyard has been renovated within the last 25 years. Within the graveyard are seven modern head stones and, lying flush with the turf, numerous cover-stones, the earliest date noted on these being 1717. At the gateway is a modern plaque dated 1956 which refers to the graveyard as Cladh Mherrin the ancient cemetery of St Mirren (Cladh Maireannach is probably the correct name). The graveyard lies within an extensive 19th century depopulated hamlet [NC70NE 39].

Visited by OS (WDJ), 20 April 1964 and (JB), 11 August 1975.