Inver, St John's Chapel
Burial Ground (Post Medieval), Chapel (Medieval) - (Post Medieval)(Possible)
Site Name Inver, St John's Chapel
Classification Burial Ground (Post Medieval), Chapel (Medieval) - (Post Medieval)(Possible)
Alternative Name(s) Wester Arboll
Canmore ID 15311
Site Number NH88SE 2
NGR NH 8646 8293
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/15311
- Council Highland
- Parish Tarbat
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Ross And Cromarty
- Former County Ross And Cromarty
NH88SE 2 8646 8293.
In 1633 the lands of Arkboll included 'Portnawest or the harbour of St John, with the chapel of St John'. The chapel stood at Wester Arboll, dedicated to St John the Baptist.
Orig Paroch Scot 1855.
Mrs Ross (B Ross, Inver) recalls her father talking about St John's Chapel which was alleged to have been in the vicinity of the disused burial ground at NH 8646 8293. The burial ground was used for cholera victims and shows no headstones. There is now no trace of the chapel and the area is covered by turf-covered blown sand.
Visited by OS (A A) 20 September 1972.
Note (1979)
Tarbat, St John's Chapel NH c.864 829 NH88SE 2
This chapel, dedicated to St John the Baptist, is said to have stood 'a large mile' W of Tarbat parish church. A burial-ground may have existed alongside.
RCAHMS 1979
(Macfarlane 1906-8, 215; OPS 1851-5, ii, 450)
