MHG4437 - St. Drostan's Chapel & Graveyard, Dunachton
Summary
No summary available.
Type and Period (1)
- CHAPEL (Medieval to 19th Century - 1058 AD to 1900 AD)
Protected Status
Full Description
Access Audit 53 - HAW 11/2003
NH80SW 1 8227 0463.
Supposed Site of St. Drostan's Chapel (NR).
OS 6"map, Inverness, 2nd ed., (1903)
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'Speyside Monumental Inscriptions', pre 1855
Monumental inscription survey completed by Alison Mitchell. The survey may not include inscription information after 1855 and each inscription transcribed does not give the full details that appear on the stones, abbreviations used. Some ommissions and inacuraciesmay be encountered. First published 1975, reprinted 1992. Survey undertaken between 1970-1974.
J Aitken : 20/12/02
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There was a chapel at Dunachton at a very early period. It stood where there is now a small burial-ground, between the railway and the highway, the surrounding field being known as the Chapel Field. (C Fraser-Mackintosh 1866) St. Drostan's Chapel below Dunachton House is the 'Cepella de Nachtan' mentioned in 1380. The burial-ground was enclosed by a stone wall in the mid-19th century, and a mock ruin built by Mackintosh of Moy, by whom it is kept as a family burial ground. (A Macbain 1891)
C Fraser-Mackintosh 1866; A Macbain 1891.
The 'highway' referred to by Mackintosh is probably Wade's Road. Apart from the 'mock ruin', there are no visible remains of a building within the graveyard enclosure. At the entrance to the ruin there is a plaque to the effect that this tomb was built by the desire and at the expense of Captain George Mackintosh who died in 1780.
Visited by OS (R L) 30 November 1966.
Sources/Archives (4)
- --- SHG2161 Text/Publication/Volume: Edited by Alison Mitchell. 1992. Speyside Monumental Inscriptions, pre 1855. 2nd.
- --- SHG2229 Text/Publication/Volume: Fraser-Mackintosh, C. 1866. Dunachton Past and Present. 2.
- --- SHG225 Text/Publication/Article: Macbain, A. 1891. 'Badenoch: Its history, clans, and place names', Trans Gaelic Soc Inverness Vol. 16 1889-90, p.148-97. Trans Gaelic Soc Inverness. 148-97. 189.
- --- SHG3372 Text/Publication/Volume: Name Book (County). Object Name Books of the Ordnance Survey. Book No. 4, 45.
Map
Location
Grid reference | Centred NH 8227 0463 (40m by 40m) (2 map features) |
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Map sheet | NH80SW |
Civil Parish | ALVIE |
Geographical Area | BADENOCH AND STRATHSPEY |
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Related Monuments/Buildings (1)
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External Links (2)
- http://portal.historicenvironment.scot/designation/LB4337 (Online designation description (Historic Environment Scotland))
- https://canmore.org.uk/site/14901 (View RCAHMS Canmore entry for this site)
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