Archaeology Notes

Event ID 676209

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NN01SE 1 0793 1306.

(NN 0792 1307) Chapel (NR) (In Ruins) Burial Ground (NR)

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

A small ruined chapel, whose walls stood 2' high in 1870, and its burial ground which was still in use for the burial of children and infants in the 18th century, the whole enclosed by a low turf dyke.

The burial ground, oval on plan with a maximum diameter of 43' contains two low mounds, possibly bee-hive cells or graves, which lie to the NE of the chapel.

Bracken prevented a search for grave-markers.

The dedication is to St Mundu or Munnu: Finten (who died in 635), as indicated by the neighbouring farm-name "Kilmun".

New Statistical Account (NSA) 1845; Name Book 1870; W J Watson 1926; M Campbell and M Sandeman 1964.

The chapel measures 6.6m E-W by 3.1m within a turf- covered stone wall 1.2m wide and 0.3m high. The burial ground, c. 20.0m in diameter, is enclosed by a turf- covered stone wall 0.5m high, now spread to a width of 3.0m. At the NE corner of the chapel, there is a small turf-covered mound of stone; its purpose is unknown. The whole site is thickly covered in bracken.

Revised at 1:10,000.

Visited by OS (WDJ) 5 November 1969.