Archaeology Notes

Event ID 694011

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NR34NE 1 3736 4579.

(NR 3735 4579) Cill Tobar Lasrach (NR)

Chapel (NR) (In Ruins)

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

"Eaglais Tobar Lasrach", the church of the well of Lasrach, is the foundation of a very ancient chapel lying a little to the north of the well. It has been a small rectangular building about 23ft by 10 1/2ft internally. On the north side of the interior is an irregular piece of masonry. The door was in the south. The north and east walls are extended to form a circular enclosure and there is an entrance more or less corresponding to that in the chapel.

On either side of the opening is an upright stone, one with a circular hole, and the other with an oblong hole. Other pierced stones lie about. To the west of the enclosure is a small trench (shore pecked line on plan Graham 1895}). "A saint named Lassair is commemorated in Cill Lasrach, other wise Cill Tobar Lasrach. There is however nothing to show which saint of that name is meant."

R C Graham 1895; W J Watson 1926.

The remains of a chapel and enclosure (possibly the remains of a burial ground) lie in a sheltered hollow in pastureland. The chapel measures 7.2m east-west by 3.6m internally with turf covered walling up to 0.6m high and 1.0m thick. There is a poorly preserved entrance in the south wall. It lies in the north east corner of a sub oval enclosure and its the north and east walls form part of the enclosure wall. This measures 14m east-west by 11.8m over turf covered walling 0.7m high. The entrance appears to be in the south west and is flanked by holed stones as described by Graham (1895). The small trench mentioned by Graham is probably natural.

There is a poorly preserved wall situated approximately 50m south of the chapel at NR 3737 4575.

It is surrounded by rough boulders and the water flows into a modern trough.

Surveyed at 1:10000.

Visited by OS (TRG) 1 June 1978.