Southend
Battle Site (17th Century), Burial Ground (17th Century)
Site Name Southend
Classification Battle Site (17th Century), Burial Ground (17th Century)
Canmore ID 38288
Site Number NR60NE 12
NGR NR 688 080
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/38288
- Council Argyll And Bute
- Parish Southend
- Former Region Strathclyde
- Former District Argyll And Bute
- Former County Argyll
NR60NE 12 688 080
(NR 6868 0816) Graves (NAT)
(Centred NR 688 080) Site of Conflict between the Clans Campbell and MacDonald AD 1647 (NAT).
OS 6" map (1924)
The site of the massacre of the MacDonald garrison of Dunaverty Castle (NR60NE 4) after their surrender to the Earl of Argyll and General Leslie in July 1647. A small area where three of the MacDonalds are buried is enclosed by a wall. There are estimated to have been about 300 men in the garrison, at the start of the siege in May 1647.
Name Book 1866; NSA 1845
The walled burial enclosure still survives virtually entire. A plaque set into the wall states that a number of the slain were interred within the enclosure.
Visited by OS (NKB), 27 September 1977.
