Archaeology Notes

Event ID 673788

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NM22SE 33 c. 284 242

(Area: NM 284 242) Cill Chainnich and Cladh Chainnich, the Chapel and Burial Ground of St Cainnech, a contemporary of Columba, stood close to the site of the present parish church.

The foundations were removed some years before 1857, in which year only a few tombstones remained.

W Reeves 1857; A Ritchie and E Ritchie 1934.

There is no evidence of the earlier church. One tombstone of the former burial ground rests against the present church.

Visited by OS (JP) 8 June 1972.

An early Christian cross-incised stone, found in reuse near the manse, and now in the Abbey Museum (see NM22SE 5.01, no.9), is believed to be from the former burial-ground of Cill Chainnech.

I Fisher 2001.