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Archaeology Notes
Event ID 677191
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/677191
NN60NW 16 centred 60914 08262
(NN 6097 0825) Chapel (NR) (Site of)
OS 6" map, (1958)
The ruins of an ancient church at Kilmahog dedicated to St Kessog (Kilmahog - cell of Kessog). On an intact gable hangs a 17th century bell.
A M Campbell 1961.
A freestanding metal plaque erected at NN 6091 0826 reads: "Foundations of Pre-Reformation Church", although no trace survives.
Kilmahog chapel, first mentioned in the calendar of Papal registers in 1259, was not dedicated to St Kessog but to St Mahog, and was probably a settlement of the old Celtic church or Culdees. The bell, which hangs in the relatively modern gable or arched gateway to the churchyard is not 17th century as it appears in a story about the mid 15th century. It bears the Graham arms and may well be older than 15th century (information from Rev M A MacCorquodale, St Kessog's Manse, Callander).
Visited by OS (R D) 1 November 1968.
Watson (1926) makes no mention of St Kessog or St Mahog. Instead he suggests an Irish saint, Cuaca.
W J Watson 1926.
