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Island Of Danna, Danna Na Cloiche

Burial Enclosure (18th Century)

Site Name Island Of Danna, Danna Na Cloiche

Classification Burial Enclosure (18th Century)

Alternative Name(s) Danna Island

Canmore ID 98840

Site Number NR67NE 15

NGR NR 69234 77496

Datum OSGB36 - NGR

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Administrative Areas

  • Council Argyll And Bute
  • Parish North Knapdale
  • Former Region Strathclyde
  • Former District Argyll And Bute
  • Former County Argyll

Activities

Field Visit (1973)

NR67NE 15 6923 7749

According to local tradition a chapel. Probable 18th-19th century mausoleum.

Visited by OS (DWR) 14 May 1973

Field Visit (August 1984)

This small structure stands on sloping ground 130m from the N shore of a bay at the S extremity of the island of Danna, and close to the entrance of Loch Sween. It measures 5.7m square within walls of lime-mortared rubble masonry, 0.7m thick and up to 1.5m high; the entrance is at the centre of the S wall. Although there are no identifiable funerary monuments, its identification as a private burial-enclosure of the Campbell family of Danna (en.1) is supported by the existence in the inner face of the W wall of three recesses, each 0.75m wide and 0.2m deep. These resemble the provision made for mural tablets in other 18th-century family burial-aisles in Mid Argyll (cf. Nos. 18, 32, 90).

RCAHMS 1992, visited August 1984

Note (17 May 1999)

A single unroofed structure is depicted on the 1st edition of the OS 6-inch map (Argyllshire 1873, sheet clxxix) and on the current edition of the OS 1:10000 map (1979).

Information from RCAHMS (AKK) 17 May 1999.

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