Archaeology Notes

Event ID 724522

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NX06SE 25 c. 060 608.

A chapel dedicated to St John was built in the 15th century by the Adairs of Dunskey and Kinhilt; it is assumed to have been of some importance because the Castle of Stanraer (NX06SE 11), a subsequent building, was designated 'The Chapel". St. John's Chapel stood near the castle and on the east side of the stream that flowed through Stranraer but which was covered over and diverted in 1845 AD.

P H M'Kerlie 1906; E M H M'Kerlie 1916; Trans Dumfriesshire Galloway Natur Hist Antiq Soc 1932

Ruinous in 1684 AD.

A Kennedy 1831; A Aymson 1684

No further information found during field investigation.

Visited by OS (WDJ) 8 February 1963.