Archaeology Notes

Event ID 688961

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NO43SE 11 4776 3248

NO 4776 3248) Site of (NAT) Chapel (NR) formerly called Eglismonichty (NR)

OS 6" map, Forfarshire, 2nd ed., (1923)

'Ecclesmonichty' was situated on a rise overlooking the Dighty Water opposite Panmure Bleachfield. Its stones were removed in 1806 to build Balmossie meal mill. The Lady Tree still marks the site.

A Jervise 1859.

The chapel was dedicated to St Andrew.

A J Warden 1880-5.

No traces of chapel or tree now exist in a cultivated field.

Visited by OS (J L D) 30 April 1958.