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Kirk Hill, St Neachtan's Church
Burial Ground (Early Medieval), Church (Early Medieval)
Site Name Kirk Hill, St Neachtan's Church
Classification Burial Ground (Early Medieval), Church (Early Medieval)
Alternative Name(s) Kirklands; Coldstone Churchyard; Parish Church Of Coldstone; Kirkhill Burial Gound
Canmore ID 17001
Site Number NJ40NW 5
NGR NJ 43235 05651
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/17001
- Council Aberdeenshire
- Parish Logie-coldstone
- Former Region Grampian
- Former District Kincardine And Deeside
- Former County Aberdeenshire
NJ40NW 5.00 43235 05651
NJ40NW 5.01 NJ 43247 05646 Cross-slab
(NJ 4322 0564) Church (NR) (Site of)
OS 6" map, Aberdeenshire, 2nd ed., (1902)
Not to be confused with Migvie, Old Parish Church (NJ 43668 06839 to NJ 4365 0682), for which see NJ40NW 2.00.
The parish church of Coldstone stood a little north of centre of the graveyard until removed at the end of the 17th century when the parish was united with Logie, and nothing remained in 1866.
Name Book 1866.
Coldstone was a prebend of Aberdeen and the church was dedicated to St Neachtan of Mortlach (H Scott 1915-61) Phillips suggests a dedication to St Wallach (Information from the Dark Age Index, by C W Phillips) (This refers to the ancient church at Logie Mar).
Within the churchyard (in use as the headstone of a grave) is an oval slab of whinstone, 1 foot 10 inches long, by 11 inches wide by 3 1/2 inches deep with a Celtic cross incised upon it.
J R Allen and J Anderson 1903; H Scott (Fasti Eccles Scot) 1915-61.
Field Visit (5 September 1968)
No trace or local knowledge of the church: the graveyard is still in use. The cross-inscribed stone is as described and illustrated.
Surveyed at 1/2500.
Visited by OS (N K B) 5 September 1968.
Field Visit
This building is situated on a moderate S-facing slope at an altitude of about 230m OD.
NMRS, MS/712/44.
