Archaeology Notes

Event ID 680108

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NO00SE 8 05459 00817

See also NO00SE 9.

(NO 0546 0081) Church (NR) (remains of)

OS 1:10,000 map, (1974)

The churches of Fossoway (NO00SW 6) and Tullibole were taken down in 1729. They were replaced by a new church and manse at Tullibole which lasted for 51 years when the church fell into disuse.

OSA 1796.

Tullibole church is represented merely by foundations on the N side of a derelict graveyard. The oldest tombstone above ground is that of James Liuiston, who died in 1660.

RCAHMS 1933, visited 1929.

The existing foundations of Tullibole Church suggest that it measured 21.0m E-W by 6.0m transversely over walls 0.6m thick which, except at the centre of the N side, where the wall is 1.5m high, are reduced to grass-covered footings. The remains, however, may well represent two phases of the church, probably pre- and post-1729. About 4.0m E of the E end of the church is the outline in the turf of a small rectangular building, while 24.0m to the N are the turf-covered footings of

another. Both of these may be associated with the church. The 17th century gravestone was not located.

Surveyed at 1:2500.

Visited by OS (E G C) 27 December 1967.