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Ardnoe Point
Gravestone (19th Century)
Site Name Ardnoe Point
Classification Gravestone (19th Century)
Alternative Name(s) John Black 1832; The Sailor's Grave
Canmore ID 80513
Site Number NR79SE 41
NGR NR 77301 94550
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/80513
- Council Argyll And Bute
- Parish North Knapdale
- Former Region Strathclyde
- Former District Argyll And Bute
- Former County Argyll
NR79SE 41 7730 9454.
Grave: Near the W end of Ardnoe Point stands a grave stone erected in memory of a sea captain who died of cholera in 1832.
Name Book 1867.
Field Visit (July 1982)
A large round-topped headstone of sandstone stands about 40 m from the shore at the foot of a wooded hillside SE of Ardnoe Point. It was erected by his widow, lsabella Eston, to commemorate John Black, 'feuar and fish curer in Greenock, who died of cholera on board of his schooner Diana, and was intered (sic) here 28th July 1832 aged 45 years’.
RCAHMS 1992, visited July 1982
