Killin, Church And Churchyard
Burial Ground (Medieval), Church (Medieval)
Site Name Killin, Church And Churchyard
Classification Burial Ground (Medieval), Church (Medieval)
Canmore ID 24191
Site Number NN53SE 14
NGR NN 57118 33008
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/24191
- Council Stirling
- Parish Killin
- Former Region Central
- Former District Stirling
- Former County Perthshire
NN53SE 14 5711 3300.
(NN 5711 3300) Church (NR) (Site of)
OS 6" map (1900)
The earliest church and graveyard at Killin were traditionally near the monolith known as Fingal's Stone (NN53SE 15) behind the village. When the ground around the stone was examined, no bones were found.
The pre-Reformation church of Killin stood within the old parish churchyard, and its ruined walls were still standing in 1842 (New Statistical Account [NSA] 1845). A seven-sided font, now in the parish church, was found half-buried within the old grave- yard.
It is said that the church and churchyard occupied the slope a little above where the stone (NN53SE 15) now stands; considerably quantities of human bones were taken to the present churchyard and buried "behind the yew tree" when the land was brought into cultivation.
W A Gillies 1938; C G Cash 1912
There are now no traces of this church and churchyard.
Visited by OS (WDJ) 18 August 1969
Field Visit (June 1978)
Killin, Old Parish Church and Burial-ground NN 571 330 NN53SE 14
There was a church at Killin by the early 14th century, but nothing now remains of this church or its burial-ground.
RCAHMS 1979, visited June 1978
(NSA, x, Perth, 1076; Cash 1912, 285; Gillies 1938, 52-4; Cowan 1967, 102)
