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Portmahomack
Chapel (Medieval) - (Post Medieval)(Possible), Human Remains (Medieval) - (Post Medieval)(Possible)
Site Name Portmahomack
Classification Chapel (Medieval) - (Post Medieval)(Possible), Human Remains (Medieval) - (Post Medieval)(Possible)
Canmore ID 15666
Site Number NH98SW 6
NGR NH 9169 8458
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/15666
- Council Highland
- Parish Tarbat
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Ross And Cromarty
- Former County Ross And Cromarty
NH98SW 6 9169 8458
(NH 9169 8458) Chapel (NR) (Site of)
OS 6" map, Ross-shire, 2nd ed., (1907)
On a green hill, known as Chapelhill or Knockshorty at Portmahomack, a chapel appears to have stood (OPS 1855). The site of a chapel at Chapel Street, Portmahomack, is marked on high ground by a rough flooring of flat stones in a roughly oblong setting, approx E and E (Davidson 1948).
Orig Paroch Scot 1855; J M Davidson 1948.
No trace.
Visited by OS (A A) 20 September 1972.
Field Visit (September 1978)
Portmahomack, Chapel NH 916 845 NH98SW 6
The discovery before 1845 of human bones 'deposited within rough flags of freestone' may be linked with the chapel that is alleged to have stood on this site. The rough flooring of flat stones in a roughly oblong setting, approximately east and west', recorded in 1947 may be associated with the chapel or with later buildings, which were still standing on the site in 1907.
RCAHMS 1979, visited September 1978
(NSA, xiv, Ross and Cromarty, 460; OPS 1851-5, ii, 434; OS 6-inch map, Ross and Cromarty, 2nd edition, 1907, sheet xxx; Davidson 1946, 27)
