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Balmenoch, 'moot-hill'
Burial Ground (16th Century) - (Early 19th Century)
Site Name Balmenoch, 'moot-hill'
Classification Burial Ground (16th Century) - (Early 19th Century)
Alternative Name(s) Sithean A Bhaile-mheadhonaich
Canmore ID 24527
Site Number NN64NW 10
NGR NN 6108 4736
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/24527
- Council Perth And Kinross
- Parish Fortingall
- Former Region Tayside
- Former District Perth And Kinross
- Former County Perthshire
NN64NW 10 6108 4736.
"Sithean a Bhaile-mheadhonaich" is classed as a "motehill" by Campbell (whose text implies that he means a "moot-hill") but is "a simple level rath or circle in a natural recess" in which unbaptised infants were buried from at least the 16th - 17th centuries until c.1830. It lies
by the river between two birch-covered knolls on what was in 1888 the west part of Balnahannait farm but had been Balmeanoch. (Balnahanaid: NN 623 472; Balmenoch: NN 612 473. See also NN64NW 3).
D Campbell 1888
At NN 6108 4736 is a large conical natural mound on top of which is a circular hollow 8.5m E-W by 6.0m, surrounded by traces of a slight turf bank. It is said by the farmer at Roroyere to have been used as a burial place for unbaptised infants.
Though undoubtedly "Sithean a Bhaile-mheadhonaich", it is no longer known locally by that name.
Surveyed at 1:10,000.
Visited by OS (JB) 19 September 1975.
