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St Martin's Church And Well
Burial Ground (Medieval), Church (Medieval), Holy Well (Medieval)
Site Name St Martin's Church And Well
Classification Burial Ground (Medieval), Church (Medieval), Holy Well (Medieval)
Canmore ID 13707
Site Number NH66SW 7
NGR NH 6456 6266
NGR Description NH 6456 6266 and NH 6456 6262
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/13707
- Council Highland
- Parish Resolis
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Ross And Cromarty
- Former County Ross And Cromarty
NH66SW 7 6456 6266 and 6456 6262
(NH 6456 6266) St. Martin's Church (NR) (Site of)
(NH 6454 6262) St. Martin's Well (NR)
OS 6" map, (1959)
St. Martin's Church, dedicated to St. Martin of Tours, stood within its burial ground at Kilmartin (possibly the unnamed ruins to the east). It was the parish church of what came to be known as Cullicudden, although the Gaelic name for the parish remained 'Sgire a' Mhartinn' - 'Martin's parish'.
The church is mentioned in 1275, and probably continued in use until a new church was built at Cullicudden in 1609. (NH66NW 4). The burial ground has been ploughed up, and only the foundations of the church remained in 1875.
According to the Ordnance Survey Name Book (ONB, 1875) the well is covered over with a stone roof.
New Statistical Account (NSA) 1845; Name Book 1875; W J Watson 1904.
The remains of St. Martin's Church fall in a cultivated field and consist of a low mound containing the foundations of a building, orientated E-W, measuring 14.0m E to W by 7.0m N to S, with a small annexe, 4.6m square, attached to the NE corner. The best preserved section of walling occurs along the E side where two courses of rough masonry, 0.4m high, can be seen. The well, a natural spring, measures 0.6m square, by 0.9m deep, and the cover stone, mentioned by the ONB, lies immediately to the W. There is no trace of a burial ground in the vicinity of the church. According to Mr Elliot (St Martins, Resolis, Black Isle), the foundations will soon be completely removed for agricultural purposes.
Revised at 1/2500.
Visited by OS (R B), 24 January 1966.
Field Visit (May 1979)
Drumdyre, Church and Burial-ground NH 645 626 NH66SW 7
Nothing can now be seen of what was probably the former parish church of Cullicudden which was superseded at some time during the 17th century by the church NH66NW 4; the dedication was to St Martin. In 1966 the footings of a building measuring 14m from E to W by 7m transversely with an annexe about 4.6m square on the NE were still visible.
RCAHMS 1979, visited May 1979
NSA, xiv (Ross and Cromarty), 38; OPS 1851-5, ii, 553; Scott et al 1915-61, vii. 18
