Kirkfield
Monastic Settlement (Period Unassigned)(Possible)
Site Name Kirkfield
Classification Monastic Settlement (Period Unassigned)(Possible)
Canmore ID 46625
Site Number NS84SE 6
NGR NS 86 43
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/46625
- Council South Lanarkshire
- Parish Lesmahagow
- Former Region Strathclyde
- Former District Clydesdale
- Former County Lanarkshire
NS84SE 6 86 43.
There was anciently an establishment of Culdees on Abbey Green at Kirkfield.
M E C Walcott 1874
The church of Lesmahagow was dedicated to St Machuit, out of whose mission grew the early Celtic Abbey whose buildings stood on the Abbey Green (? at Kirkfield).
H Scott (Fasti Eccles) 1920
An assumption of the charter of David I was that the church of Lesmahagow might have been a religous edifice (probably belonging to the Culdees), which was believed to have existed at Kirkfield, on the banks of the river Clyde and within the parish, the names Kirkfield Kirkfieldbank, and Kirkyard Park still surviving in that locality.
J B Greenshields 1870
This site is rather vague and should be treated with reserve. On the monastic Britain maps (1950 edition) a symbol for an unimportant monastic establishment was shown at Kirkfield, but this has since been deleted. (For Lesmahagow Church and Abbey see Lanark 31 NE 5).
OS Monastic Britain map 1950
