Glenamachrie

NM92NW 13 centred 923 285.

The site of an old burial ground is said to be located in the area of the present Glenamachrie farm. Smith (R A Smith 1873) described it as an elongated, rectangular enclosure, very much decayed and with signs of a circular mound round it, 60 feet in diameter, but very low. There was an entrance on the east side. The burial ground was said to be the place where infant children from Dunstaffnage Castle were interred (R A Smith 1873). Its precise location is not now known being given variously as just east of the farmhouse (R A Smith 1879), to the west of the road (R A Smith 1873) and on the site of the farmyard (W Thomson 1925).

The name Glenamachrie (OS 1:10 000 1975) would tend to support the belief in the existence of this burial ground site. According to Smith (R A Smith 1873), the name derives from Cladh na MacRigh (ie the buring place of the King's sons) which he gives as the name of the narrow pass in that area. In (R A Smith 1879), Smith translates the Gaelic as 'the burial place of the youths'. The local tradition associated with the cross decorated stone which formerly stood on the mound known as Tom na Croise (NM92NW 9) provides added weight.

R A Smith 1873; 1879; W Thomson 1925.

This burial ground is believed locally, by a farmer who has lived in the district for 40 years, to have been in the area centred on NM 9233 2859 where there is an almost semi-circular raised area enclosed by a wall. No gravestones are visible.

Visited by OS (R D) 8 October 1969.