Desk Based Assessment
Date 1971
Event ID 675084
Category Recording
Type Desk Based Assessment
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/675084
NM70SE 3.00 77826 01480
NM70SE 3.01 NM 7781 0145 Cottages
NM70SE 3.02 NM 77826 01480 Cross slab
(NM 7782 0148) Chapel (NR) (In Ruins)
(Cill Mairi) (NAT) Burial Ground (NAT)
OS 6" map, Argyllshire, 2nd ed., (1900)
St Maelrubha's Chapel, Kilmory, Kilmory, Kirkton, (HBD No. 11) is of uncertain date, possibly c. 1200. It is rubble-walled, oblong, gabled and roofless. There are two splayed round-headed lancet windows in the S wall, one in the N, a couplet on E, and a doorway at SW. The floor is grass-grown and there are ancient grave-slabs, font etc.
The church and churchyard probably conceal all traces of an earlier site (Campbell and Sandeman 1964).
Called Kilmorow in 1580, Kilmolruy and Kilmorie in 1626, Kilmory was the ancient name of Craignish.
H Scott et al 1915-61; M Campbell and M Sandeman 1964; W J Watson 1926.
Information from OS.
