Archaeology Notes

Event ID 675973

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NN12NE 8 16764 27516

(NN 1677 2750) Church (NAT) Clachan Diseart (NAT)

OS 6" map, Argyll, 2nd ed., (1900).

See also NN02SE 2 and NN12SW 8.

The church of Dysart (Glenorchy) at Dalmally, is mentioned from 1390. In 1586 it stood on an island. The present church was built in 1811 on the same island.

Orig Paroch Scot 1854; W J Watson 1926.

There is no trace of an earlier church. There are several late medieval grave slabs in the burial ground. The church is still in use.

Visited by OS (D W R) 19 March 1973.

Full description

RCAHMS 1975, visited July 1971.