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Breachlich, Church
Burial Ground (Medieval) - (Post Medieval), Church (Medieval)
Site Name Breachlich, Church
Classification Burial Ground (Medieval) - (Post Medieval), Church (Medieval)
Alternative Name(s) St Ewan's Church; Breachlich Churchyard; Bracholie; Bracholy
Canmore ID 14423
Site Number NH75SE 7
NGR NH 7961 5285
NGR Description Centred on 7961 5285
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/14423
- Council Highland
- Parish Petty
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Inverness
- Former County Inverness-shire
See also NH75SE 8.
No trace of this church remains in Breachlich churchyard, which is still occasionally used for burials.
Visited by OS (RD) 13 August 1964.
A survey was made of the following graveyard as part of a wider study of graveyards in the Highland area (see DES 2002, 60).
Breachlich churchyard (Petty parish)
NH 7961 5285 148 memorials recorded.
Report lodged with Highland SMR and the NMRS.
Sponsor: Marc Fitch Fund.
S Farrell 2003
Field Visit (March 1978)
Breachlich, Church NH 796 528 NH75SE 7
Nothing can now be seen, within a burial-ground, of the former parish church of Bracholie, which is first mentioned in 1281; it was dedicated to St Ewan. The parish of Bracholie was united with Petty about 1500 but the church was still in use in 1688, and the remains could still be seen in 1792.
RCAHMS 1979, visited March 1978
NSA, xiv, Inverness, 375; Jolly 1882, 369; Scott et al. 1915-61, vi, 478
