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Archaeology Notes
Event ID 718971
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/718971
NT57SW 10 NT 53613 74731
See also NT57SW 5 and NT57SW 9.
(NT 5345 7466) Site of St Mary's Nunnery (NR) (Cistercian)
OS 6" map (1969)
This was one of the largest Scottish nunneries. It was founded by Ada, countess of Northumberland and Huntingdon, for Cistercian nuns, before 1159. It was burned by the English in 1335/6 and in 1554, and was secularised in 1621. Though no trace of it remained in 1853, remains were extant within living memory, and the site was pointed out by local informants who could remember them.
I B Cowan and D E Easson 1976; Name Book 1853; D E Easson and G Donaldson 1955
There is nothing to be seen at the published site though the farmer, Mr Steadman, Abbeymill Farm, states that the ground in the vicinity is very stony.
Visited by OS (BS) 7 July 1975
