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Ballone, Teampall-earach And Tobar Mhuire
Burial Ground (Medieval) - (Post Medieval), Chapel (Medieval), Well (Medieval) - (Post Medieval)
Site Name Ballone, Teampall-earach And Tobar Mhuire
Classification Burial Ground (Medieval) - (Post Medieval), Chapel (Medieval), Well (Medieval) - (Post Medieval)
Alternative Name(s) Rockfield; Mary's Well
Canmore ID 15667
Site Number NH98SW 7
NGR NH 9266 8342
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/15667
- Council Highland
- Parish Tarbat
- Former Region Highland
- Former District Ross And Cromarty
- Former County Ross And Cromarty
NH98SW 7 c. 926 834
(NH 9264 8342) Chapel (NR) (Site of)
(NH 9267 8342) Grave Yard (NR) (Site of)
(NH 9259 8338) Mary's Well (NAT)
OS 6" map, Ross-shire, 2nd ed., (1907).
The rather indefinite remains of a chapel exist at Ballone, near Ballone Castle (NH98SW 1), but on the shore-level, one third of a mile NE of the village of Rockfield (Davidson 1948). The chapel was known as Teampall-Earach and a well nearby was named Tobar Mhuire or Mary's Well (OPS 1855).
There is one tombstone on the graveyard site bearing the date 1682 (Ordnance Survey Name Book [ONB] 1872).
Statistical Account (OSA) 1793; Orig Paroch Scot 1855; Name Book 1872; J M Davidson 1948.
No trace of the chapel, graveyard or well. The gravestone, now split into two pieces, lies at NH 9267 8342.
Visited by OS (I S S), 8 September 1972.
Grave slab found, 1628 date. Much small stone lying around, none in-situ structure. Possible storm beach. No other features. c. 100m to NE possible wall, grass grown and several stone mounds nearby.
CFA/MORA Coastal Assessment Survey 1998.
Field Visit (September 1977)
Teampall-Earach, Chapel NH 926 834 NH98SW 7
A single gravestone, bearing the date 1682 and lying on a clearance-heap, is all that remains to indicate the site of this chapel and graveyard.
RCAHMS 1979, visited September 1977
(StatAcct, vi, 1793, 431; OPS 1851-5, ii, 434)
