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External Reference
Date 20 July 1971
Event ID 962264
Category Documentary Reference
Type External Reference
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/event/962264
1160-1210. Gothic. Rubble, much dilapidated. Roofless. Fragmentary
remains.
CHURCH: Nave, N. Transept (late 13th Cent) Chancel (with plaque
commemorating founders; grave-slabs with effigies of knights, priests, etc.;
standing cross).
CLOISTERS REFECTORY Other conventual buildings are represented by
mounds of debris.
OSA NSA TSA RCHMS INV 296 Argyll C.C. List C & D Arch Vol III,
pp.198
White 'Archaeological Sketches - Kintyre' pp.142-179 (ills) T Harvey
Thomson 'Ancient Chapels' pp 53-60 (ill). Easson 'Mediaeval Religious
Houses' p 66.
Scheduled Monument 3645. Re-scheduled area27 January 2005.
Ruin. Originally a House of Cistercian Monks founded by Somerled
Macdonald, Lord of Kintyre, and continued by his son, Reginald. Deserted
c.1470. James IV tranferred its lands to Bishopric of Argyll 1507-8.
Many stones removed in 18th century for building of Saddell House and
offices.
Information from Historic Scotland, 20 July 1971