Archaeology Notes

Event ID 725016

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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NX13NW 7 1250 3620.

(NX 1250 3620) Kildonan Church (NR) (Site of)

OS 6" map (1957)

A stone building traditionally stood c.5 1/2 chains N of Stone Ford, at a period when very few stone buildings were in existence. It was probably an old church, dedicated to St Donan (d.617), or some other building connected with it (see also NX13NW 8 and NX13NW 17 ).

Name Book 1848; H Scott 1917

There is no trace of a church here. Name confirmed. No further information.

Visited by OS (DWR) 31 January 1972

In a field on the west side of this (Kildonan) hill, stone graves have been met with. It is said that formerly a church and graveyard stood here but no trace of it can be seen now. The field has been in cultivation during the memory of the oldest inhabitant.

It is said (Stone Ford) took its name from a stone house being near it at a period when very few stone building(s) were in existence in the country. This stone house was probably an old kirk which it is said stood about 5 1/2 chains north of it, or some other house connected therewith. No trace of it can be found.

Name Book 1848

Dedicated to Donnan of Eigg (d. 617).

W J Watson 1926; J MacQueen 1973

There are no visible remains of a church, dedicated to St Donnan, which is said to have stood on the N side of the Kildonan Glen; cist-graves have been found near by (NX13NW 8 and NX13NW 17 ). For an Early Christian stone which may have come from this stie, see NX13SW 7.

Name Book 1848; P H M'Kerlie 1906; H Scott; RCAHMS 1985, visited August 1984.