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Kilmahumaig Cemetery
Burial Enclosure (18th Century), Burial Ground (Medieval), Chapel (Medieval)(Possible)
Site Name Kilmahumaig Cemetery
Classification Burial Enclosure (18th Century), Burial Ground (Medieval), Chapel (Medieval)(Possible)
Alternative Name(s) Crinan, Cemetery; Kilmahowmaig
Canmore ID 39172
Site Number NR79SE 20
NGR NR 7893 9360
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/39172
- Council Argyll And Bute
- Parish North Knapdale
- Former Region Strathclyde
- Former District Argyll And Bute
- Former County Argyll
NR79SE 20.00 7893 9360
NR79SE 20.01 7893 9360 Cross-slab
(NR 7893 9360) Chapel (NR) (Site of)
OS 6" map, Argyllshire, 2nd ed., (1924)
There is an old grave yard, still in use, a little SE of Kilmahumaig. Traditonally, a chapel stood within it, but no vestiges of it now remain.
Name Book 1867.
Recent graveyard has to NE a small rectangular enclosure suggesting a chapel ruin. Some small marker-stones, no early crosses, found in graveyard. Dedication to St Cummine, 7th Abbot of Iona, or to one of the Colmocs.
M Campbell and M Sandeman 1964.
On the N side of the still-used burial ground is a flattened area which possibly represents the site of a chapel. Miss Campbell is referring to the remains of a building outside the burial ground and oriented N-S. The dedication was not confirmed.
To be supplied by field surveyor.
Visited by OS (DWR) 28 May 1973.
Site of medieval chapel in 19th-century quadrangular enclosure.
I Fisher 2001.
Field Visit (June 1987)
Chapel (site) and burial-ground, Kilmahumaig. This burial-ground is situated on rising ground immediately NE of the road from Bellanoch to Crinan, and 300m from the Crinan Canal and the River Add. A natural mound in a field 150m to the WSW is celebrated as Dun Domhnuill, a moot-hill, and oral tradition in the 19th century preserved the Gaelic words in which Donald, Lord of the Isles (c. 1388-c. 1421) granted Kilmahumaig to the first of the MacKays. A lease of the bishop's teinds of the chapel of Kilmahowmaig was granted in 1591, and in 1654 the teinds of the Arichonan estate were described as pertaining to the chapel. In 1633 the profits of 'the chaplainry of St Colmocus' were confirmed to Niall MacKay as heir to the Kilmahumaig estate. This dedication would be to one of the many saints bearing the Irish name Colman or its variant Colmoc, but an alternative derivation from Cumma or Cummoc has been suggested.
The remains of the chapel had disappeared before 1845, but it was presumably situated on the level ground in the N half of the existing quadrangular enclosure, whose walls are of 19th century date. In the NW angle there is a small private burial-enclosure, probably of late 18th-century date but containing no inscribed stones. The burial-ground contains a number of uninscribed recumbent slabs, but the earliest inscriptions are of early 19th-century date.
RCAHMS 1992, visited June 1987.
