St Mary's Chapel, Cadbollmount
Chapel (Medieval) - (Post Medieval)
Site Name St Mary's Chapel, Cadbollmount
Classification Chapel (Medieval) - (Post Medieval)
Alternative Name(s) Cathabul
Canmore ID 15254
Site Number NH87NE 2
NGR NH 8833 7918
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/15254
- Council Highland
- Parish Fearn
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Ross And Cromarty
- Former County Ross And Cromarty
NH87NE 2 8833 7918.
(NH 8833 7912) St. Mary's Chapel (NR) (Remains of)
OS 6" map, Ross-shire, 2nd ed., (1907)
St. Mary's Chapel is situated within a clump of trees at Cadbollmount about 50 yards W of Cadbollmount farm. The site has been utilised as a dump for farm debris and no trace of the chapel site can now be seen (Davidson 1948). Chapel of St. Mary at 'Cathabul' is mentioned in 1529 (Information from the Balnagown Charters). This is probably the small chapel the outlines of which are still to be seen amid a clump of trees in a field named Baleachan (Hector's Town) of the Farm of Cadboll Mound formerly named Hill of Geanies (note by W M Murray).
Orig Paroch Scot 1855; J M Davidson 1948.
No trace of the chapel; the site is still being used as a dump.
Visited by OS (I S S) 5 September 1972.
Field Visit (September 1977)
Cadboll, Chapel NH 883 791 NH87NE 2
The site of St Mary's Chapel, recorded in 1529 and still visible in 1855, is now occupied by a rubbish-dump.
RCAHMS 1979, visited September 1977
(OPS 1851-5, ii, 434; OS 6-inch map, Ross and Cromarty, 2nd edition, 1907,, sheet xliii; Davidson 1946, 27)
Watching Brief (23 March 2008 - 27 July 2010)
NH 8166 7888 – NH 9159 8488 A watching brief on selected
sections of the water main renewal route from Loandhu
to Portmahomack was carried out 23 March 2008–27 July
2010, following a desk-based assessment of part of the route
(Loandhu to Cadboll) in 2007. Eight features were marked
out and safeguarded. Site visits and watching briefs were
conducted at 11 trench areas during construction works,
including on the Hill of Fearn to Rhynie Road, at Rhynie
Farmhouse, S of Cadboll Farm, at the site of St Mary’s
Orthoimage elevations derived from laser scans of the entrance to Caisteal Chapel/Cathabul, in the vicinity of the Cadboll Mount, at
Meikle Tarrel Farmworkers’ Cottages and six in the village of
Portmahomack. Finds included 19th- to 20th-century domestic
and architectural debris, an undated partially dressed stone
slab and a carved sandstone fragment, believed to be a
medieval column capital, dated to the 13th century.
Archive: Highland Archaeology Services Ltd
Funder: Scottish Water
