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Archaeology Notes
Event ID 724783
Category Descriptive Accounts
Type Archaeology Notes
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/724783
NX15SW 1 1077 5225
(NX 1077 5225) Clayshant Church (NR) (Site of)
OS 6" map (1957)
The site of the parish church of the old parish of Clachshant (Clach siant-holy stone) can only be traced with difficulty. The parish was united to Stoneykirk in 1618.
A fragment of a bronze bell, elliptical in section, with open angular handle, found c.1 mile E (sic) of this church was given to the NMAS in 1880.
Name Book 1848; Proc Soc Antiq Scot 1880; G Wilson 1880; H Scott 1917
Modern quarry workings have destroyed any trace of the church.
Visited by OS (RD) 1 September 1970
There are no visible remains of the medieval parish church of Clayshant, which evidently stood on a slight eminence 450m ENE of Culmore steading. The area of the burial-ground is now being quarried for gravel, and skeletal remains are visible in one of the quarry sections. The church belonged to the priory of Whithorn, and a parsonage is on record in 1427. In 1618 Clayshant was united with the parish of Stoneykirk.
RCAHMS 1987, visited April 1986.
OS 6-inch map, Wigtownshire, 1st ed. (1850), sheet 22.
