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Archaeology Notes
Event ID 699718
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/699718
NS25NW 23 2124 5551.
(NS 2124 5551) Chapel (NR) (site of)
OS 6" map (1964)
Local tradition states that there was a church on Kelburn estate at a farm called Chapel House, but it is not recorded in Origines Parochiales Scotiae (1851) or Pont's map (1553). An old woman recollected the foundations of what was said to be a chapel being removed from a spot close to the farmhouse. It was said that it was built on the foundations of another chapel. Chapel House (see also NS25NW 29) which is known to have been built about 1745 (and which was demolished in 1845) was probably built out of the stones of the old church. An old ash tree marks the supposed site of the chapel. A well, said to have belonged to it, exists near the site.
Proc Soc Antiq Scot 1894
The chapel site falls in a pasture field. There are no traces of foundations, or of the well (which is shown at NS 2126 5554 ('A') on OS 6" 1856).
Visited by OS (DS) 21 September 1956
