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Desk Based Assessment
Event ID 660631
Category Recording
Type Desk Based Assessment
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NH53SW 2 5294 3002
(NH 5294 3002) Supposed Site of (NAT)
Knights Templars' Chapel (NR)
OS 6" map, Inverness-shire, 1st ed., (1871)
Supposed Site of (NAT) St Ninian's Chapel (NR)
OS 6" map, Inverness-shire, 2nd ed., (1904)
The Chapel of St Ninian, who died c. 432, was also known as "An Teampull" - the Temple - a name denoting the existence of an early stone church. A crucifix of St Drostan was preserved in the chapel.
A Celtic cross-slab was removed from this site, first to Corrimony House (NH 376 303) and then to the modern St Ninian's Chapel at NH 4330. It measures 1'6" x 1'.
The chapel was in use at least until August 1556. The ruins existed in 1763, and, in 1835, there was still a public burial ground at "Cill Santninian".
Near the chapel were a rag well (possibly that shown at NH 529 300 on OS 1st edition 6"map) and two ash trees.
The trees were still in existence in 1882, and were fully 12' in circumference. They also were superstitiously regarded. There is now no trace of the chapel.
Information from OS.
Information from W Lorimer 1763; New Statistical Account (NSA) 1845 (Rev J D Smith 1835); Name Book 1871; J Mackintosh 1888; ISSFC 1893; W MacKay 1893; W J Watson 1926; W D Simpson 1935.
