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Archaeology Notes
Event ID 693679
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/693679
NR38NE 1 3600 8883.
(NR 3602 8882) Cill Mhoire (NR)
OS 6" map (1900)
Cille Mhoire (S Grieve 1923), Kilmory (J de V Loder 1935) or Kilmary (W Stevenson 1881), the site of a chapel dedicated to the Virgin Mary situated within an unenclosed burial ground. The chapel, whose foundation was still traceable in 1881, was rectangular in plan, measuring 20' x 15'. The burial ground is said to be the predecessor of the Priory burial ground (NR38NW 1) and, as was the practice in unenclosed burial grounds, each burial was covered with a cairn of stones with an upright stone at the head and foot. These are still visible. This was one of the resting places for funeral parties on the way to the Priory burial ground.
Name Book 1878
NR 3600 8883: The remains of the chapel measure 4.9m E-W by 3.7m within a double-faced stone wall 0.9m thick and up to 0.5m high. The entrance lay on the W. There is now no trace of the burial cairns, the only feature remaining being a small unmarked upright slab, 5.0m N of the chapel.
Surveyed at 1:2500.
Visited by OS (DWR) 18 April 1974
