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MHG3266 - Old Kilmore Church, Drumnadrochit

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NH52NW0051 Graveyard & Watch House
J Aitken : 09/12/02
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Drumnadrochit & Fort Augustus Local Plan, Oct. 1991: P37/4.33.
POLICY - 0.2 ha. Of land SE of Kilmore Church is allocated for the provision of a hall and related parking and this facility should be set back from the road frontage and minimise the loss of trees from the site.
J Aitken : 24/05/01.
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NH52NW 2 5152 2958.

(NH 5152 2958) Church {NR} (Remains of) Kilmore Graveyard {NAT}
OS 6"map, (1906)

These are the ruins of the former parish church, built in 1630, and known as 'Kilmore', as was it's predecessor mentioned in 1215. The church was abandoned in 1836, on the erection of the present parish church.
The churchyard contains some old gravestones taken from the graveyard at Abriachan. (NH 53 SE 2).
J D Smith 1835; Name Book 1871; J Ross 1883; W Mackay 1893

The remains of this church, still known as Kilmore, are almost completely ivy-covered. It is built of roughly coursed masonry with rubble infilling and is oriented NNW - SSE measuring 7.0m by 3.0m within a wall 0.6m thick standing nearly to roof height. The doorway in, the SSE, appears to have been rebuilt. A lancet window remains intact in the W wall.
No trace of an earlier church exists.
The graveyard is still in use.
Visited by OS (R L) 11 Feburary 1970

Photographs were contributed by Martin Briscoe in July 2011 via the Highland HER Flickr group.

Martin Briscoe has submitted photographs of this site to the Highland HER Flickr group. <1>

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Grid reference	Centred NH 5152 2957 (7m by 9m) (2 map features)
Map sheet	NH52NW
Civil Parish	URQUHART AND GLENMORISTON
Geographical Area	INVERNESS

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