Daless
Chapel (Medieval)(Possible)
Site Name Daless
Classification Chapel (Medieval)(Possible)
Alternative Name(s) River Findhorn
Canmore ID 14979
Site Number NH83NE 1
NGR NH 86102 38870
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/14979
- Council Highland
- Parish Cawdor
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Nairn
- Former County Nairn
NH83NE 1 8608 3886
A pre-Reformation chapel-of-ease with a small glebe existed at Daless (NH 86 38). It was disused after the Reformation but its site can still be identified.
G Bain 1928.
At NH 8608 3886 on the flat haugh-land of the River Findhorn is a sub-rectangular enclosure, oriented ESE to WNW and measuring c. 78.0m by c. 26.0m within a denuded bank of earth and stones. It is locally thought to have been a burial ground but there is not trace of tombstones or a chapel.
Visited by OS (R L), 3 December 1970.
Field Visit (May 1978)
Daless NH 860 388 NH83NE 1
A sub-rectangular enclosure, measuring 78m ESE-WNW by 26m transversely within a denuded bank of earth and stones, has been identified as the site of a pre-Reformation chapel-of-ease noted by Bain, but the surviving remains do not support this view.
RCAHMS 1978, visited May 1978
Bain 1928, 101
