Monument record MHG1899 - St. Bar's Chapel, Barrock

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Grid reference Centred ND 2909 6220 (40m by 40m) (Buffered by site type)
Map sheet ND26SE
Old County CAITHNESS
Civil Parish WICK
Geographical Area CAITHNESS

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There was a chapel, dedicated to St Bar, who died in 579, at Barrock. A MacKay 1914; W J Watson 1926.

Mr Pottiger (tenant, Barrock Mains Farm, Lyth) states that the field centred at ND 291 622 is known as 'Chapel Field', but he has never encountered any evidence of a structure during cultivation.
Visited by OS (J B) 7 May 1982.

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  • --- Text/Publication/Volume: Beaton, D (ed.). 1914. History of the Province of Caithness and Sutherland from the Earliest Times to 1615. 32.
  • --- Text/Publication/Volume: Watson, W J. 1926. The history of the Celtic place-names of Scotland: being the Rhind lectures on archaeology (expanded) delivered in 1916. 338.
  • --- Text/Publication/Volume: George Watson. Caithness Chapel Sites.

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Record last edited

Jan 28 2008 12:00AM

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