Field Visit
Date September 1986
Event ID 922780
Category Recording
Type Field Visit
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The remains of this chapel stand within a subrectangular enclosure on a terrace 150m from the E shore of Loch Striven and the same distance W of Ardtaraig House. The enclosure measures about 18m from ENE to WSW by 16.5m within an earth bank with intermittent facing-stones, now reduced to a low scarp except on the N, where it has a maximum height of 0.6m. The entrance was in the W wall, and its S jamb is formed by a carved stone of Early Christian type, probably not in its original position.
The chapel itself measures 9m from ENE to WSW by 4m, within drystone walls 0.8m thick whose uniform height of about 0.6m is due to clearance and consolidation about 1925. Its entrance is in the N wall, and there is a cross wall of uncertain significance 1m from the W end-wall.
The carved stone is a roughly rectangular slab of mica-schist 0.95m in visible height by 0.58m by 0.2m in thickness, has been broken across and repaired with mortar. The N face bears the pecked and grooved outline of a Latin cross, appparently open at the foot. On the S face there are several cup-marks, probably caused by natural weathering.
RCAHMS 1992, visited September 1986
