Archaeology Notes

Event ID 698914

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NS18SE 1.00 16575 82070

NS18SE 1.01 16592 82073 St Munn's Church

NS18SE 1.02 16587 82088 Douglas of Glenfinart Mausoleum

NS18SE 1.03 1658 8207 Cross Slab

NS18SE 1.04 16603 82072 Argyll Mausoleum

NS18SE 1.05 16613 82045 Churchyard

(NS 1653 8218) Collegiate Church Tower (NR) (AD 1442) (Ruin) (NAT)

OS 6" map (1946)

The church of St Columba, Kilmun, is mentioned in 1391. In 1441, it was erected into a Collegiate Church dedicated to St Fintan (H Scott 1950). Only a small portion remains, a church having been built in 1841 on the site of the old structure. In 1897, the remains consisted of a tower, about 20' square by 40' high, with fragments of the side walls and the mark of the church roof, on its E side.

D E Easson 1957; D MacGibbon and T Ross 1897; G Hay 1957

NS 1657 8216. As described.

Visited by OS (JP) 2 March 1973

The remains of the Collegiate Church consist of a tower 6.5m (N-S) by 6.0m and approx 12.0m high, with fragments of the side walls and the marks of the church roof on the E side.

Surveyed at 1:2500.

Visited by OS (TRG) 10 December 1976

Site of medieval church, made collegiate in 1442. Dedicated to St Mun (? Finten Munnu), whose crosier was held by hereditary keeper in 1497.

I Fisher 2001.