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Field Visit
Date March 1974
Event ID 925840
Category Recording
Type Field Visit
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/925840
The burial-ground at Killundine, which contains the 19th-century burial-enclosure of the family of Cheape of Killundine, is of recent origin. On a low knoll some 30m to the W, however are the turf-covered remains of a rectangular building which measures about 7.6m from E to W by 3.0m transversely within 0.7m walls standing to a maximum height of 0.8m. A gap at the centre of the S wall may mark the position of the entrance-doorway. This structure stands in the NW angle of a small D-shaped enclosure, defined on the N and W by sloping ground, and on the E and S by a curving stone bank.
Although the name 'Cill Leuntaig' was applied to this site by the Ordnance Survey in the 19th century, its Gaelic name is 'Cill Fhionntain', the dedication being to St Fintan. The orientation and plan-form of the building described above suggest that it was a chapel, but in view of its elongated proportions it must be attributed to the medieval period, althought the site was evidently in use at an earlier date.
Visited by RCAHMS, May 1974
