Archaeology Notes

Event ID 695301

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NR61SE 2 6833 1486

(NR 6834 1487) Chapel (NR) (Ruins of)

OS 6" map, (1924)

Chapel, Killellan. Very little now remains of this chapel. The building appears to have measured 11.2m from E to W by 6.3m transversely over walls some 0.7m in thickness. The walls, which at the SW angle stand to a maximum height of 0.9m, are in places represented only by low turf-covered mounds; the masonry appears to be of rubble laid in lime mortar. The interior is heavily overgrown with vegetation. The chapel evidently stands within a burial-ground, and traces of an enclosure dyke can be seen on the N and W sides. No tombstones are now visible, but White observed a "a few nearly obliterated graves" in about 1873 (White 1873). The dedication was probably to St Fillan.

RCAHMS 1971; T P White 1873.

The chapel and graveyard are as described and planned by RCAHMS. To the west of the building is some walling overgrown with vegetation.

Visited by OS (J B) 12 October 1977.