Archaeology Notes

Event ID 663829

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NH80SW 1.00 82268 04633

NH80SW 1.01 82270 04622 Graveyard

(NH 8227 0463) Supposed Site of St. Drostan's Chapel (NR).

OS 6"map, Inverness, 2nd ed., (1903)

There was a chapel at Dunachton at a very early period. It stood where there is now a small burial-ground, between the railway and the highway, the surrounding field being known as the Chapel Field. (C Fraser-Mackintosh 1866) St. Drostan's Chapel below Dunachton House is the 'Cepella de Nachtan' mentioned in 1380. The burial-ground was enclosed by a stone wall in the mid-19th century, and a mock ruin built by Mackintosh of Moy, by whom it is kept as a family burial ground. (A Macbain 1891)

C Fraser-Mackintosh 1866; A Macbain 1891.

The 'highway' referred to by Mackintosh is probably Wade's Road. Apart from the 'mock ruin', there are no visible remains of a building within the graveyard enclosure. At the entrance to the ruin there is a plaque to the effect that this tomb was built by the desire and at the expense of Captain George Mackintosh who died in 1780.

Visited by OS (RL) 30 November 1966.