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Miadan Beag, Ormsary
Burial Ground (Post Medieval), Gravestone (18th Century)
Site Name Miadan Beag, Ormsary
Classification Burial Ground (Post Medieval), Gravestone (18th Century)
Alternative Name(s) Ormsary House Policies; Campbell
Canmore ID 39064
Site Number NR77SW 8
NGR NR 73735 72364
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
Permalink http://canmore.org.uk/site/39064
- Council Argyll And Bute
- Parish South Knapdale
- Former Region Strathclyde
- Former District Argyll And Bute
- Former County Argyll
NR77SW 8 73735 72364
Grave Yard [NAT]
OS (GIS) MasterMap, September 2009.
Location formerly entered as NR 7374 7238.
For Ormsary House (NR 73992 72041) and associated buildings, see NR77SW 6.00.
A small plot of ground, planted round with wood, used as the district burial ground. It is very neglected; human bones may be seen scattered on the ground, and the graves are mostly overgrown. In its S end is an enclosure used as a family burial ground by the Campbells of Ormsary.
Name Book 1867; M Campbell, M Sandeman and F S Mackenna 1985.
Field Visit (May 1985)
This burial-ground is situated about 70m from the E shore of Loch Caolisport, between the policies of Ormsary House and the public road from Kilberry to Achahoish. The Gaelic name means 'little meadow', and there is no evidence of early origin (en.1). The site is irregular in outline, and is divided into two parts by a small dry valley. On the higher, or S, part there stands a railed burial-enclosure with a gabled W wall of mortared masonry incorporating in the outer face a blind double-lancet window. Built into this gable are 19th-century mural monuments commemorating members of the Campbell family of Ormsary.
The N part of the burial-ground contains numerous simple uninscribed grave markers and 19th-century headstones (en.2). The only earlier inscription (1) is on a simple headstone with rounded top commemorating Alexander Bryce, 'a mason who was killed by a fall from a scaffold at Drim [drishaig ] (en.3*) in 177 [?). In the lower part of the stone are the lines:
WARNING TAKE YE / MORTALS ALL
FROM THIS / MY UNEXPECTED FALL /
REMEMBER DEATH IS ALL / MENS DOOM
AND I WAS / CWT OF IN MY BLOOM
Several of the early 19th-century headstones have shaped tops containing twin rosettes, similar to monuments carved by members of the Glen family at other sites in the area (Nos.82, 85).
RCAHMS 1992, visited May 1985
