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Dunlop, St Mary's Chapel
Chapel (Period Unassigned)
Site Name Dunlop, St Mary's Chapel
Classification Chapel (Period Unassigned)
Alternative Name(s) Chapel Craig; Chapel Of The Virgin Mary
Canmore ID 43048
Site Number NS45SW 1
NGR NS 4080 5032
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/43048
- Council East Ayrshire
- Parish Dunlop
- Former Region Strathclyde
- Former District Kilmarnock And Loudoun
- Former County Ayrshire
NS45SW 1 4080 5032
(NS 4080 5032) Chapel (NR) (site of).
OS 6" map (1970)
There was a chapel of St Mary near Dunlop.
H Scott 1920
Bayne, following Primrose, states that an early (Culdee) chapel was erected here, supplanting the pagan worship at Thougritstane (NS45SW 2). At a later date this was replaced by a chapel, dedicated to the Virgin Mary, which belonged to Kilwinning Abbey. It fell into disuse at the Reformation. "The ruins were removed within the memory of the older generation, but mounds and artificial hillocks indicate where the chapel, or even a cluster of Culdee cells, may have stood".
J F Bayne 1935
A chapel supposedly dedicated to the Virgin Mary stood at Chapel Craig, but no tradition concerning it can be relied upon (Name Book 1856). Nor is it certain whether it was the pre-Reformation parish church, as conjectured by the Statistical Account (OSA, 1793) or a chapel distinct therefrom as stated by Chalmers. The ruins of a building were removed about 1830.
G Chalmers 1824
No trace of the chapel remains.
Visited by OS (DS) 30 August 1956.
