Monument record MHG7489 - Chapel, graveyard & well, Ballone

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Grid reference Centred NH 9260 8340 (40m by 40m) (Buffered by site type)
Map sheet NH98SW
Geographical Area ROSS AND CROMARTY
Old County ROSS-SHIRE
Civil Parish TARBAT

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NH98SW 7 c.926 834.

(NH 9264 8342) Chapel (NR) (Site of) (NH 9267 8342) Grave Yard (NR) (Site of) (NH 9259 8338) Mary's Well (NAT)
OS 6" map, Ross-shire, 2nd ed., (1907)

The rather indefinite remains of a chapel exist at Ballone, near Ballone Castle, but on shore-level, one third of a mile NE of village of Rockfield (Davidson 1948). The chapel was known as Teampall-Earach and a well nearby was named Tobar Mhuire or Mary's Well (OPS 1855).
There is one tombstone on graveyard site bearing the date 1682 (ONB 1872).
OSA 1793; Orig Paroch Scot 1855; Name Book 1872; J M Davidson 1948.

No trace of chapel, graveyard or well. The gravestone, now split into two pieces, lies at NH 9267 8342.
Visited by OS (I S S) 8 September 1972.

Sources/Archives (5)

  • --- Text/Publication/Volume: Sir John Sinclair (ed.). 1791-9. The statistical account of Scotland, drawn up from the communications of the ministers of the different parishes. Vol. 6, 431.
  • --- Text/Report: RCAHMS. 1979. The Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland. The archaeological sites and monuments of Easter Ross, Ross and Cromarty District, Highland Region. . 29, No. 245.
  • --- Text/Publication/Volume: Name Book (County). Object Name Books of the Ordnance Survey. Book No. 30, 45.
  • --- Text/Publication/Monograph: OPS. 1855. Origines parochiales Scotiae: the antiquities ecclesiastical and territorial of the parishes of Scotland. 2/2. 434.
  • --- Text/Publication/Article: Davidson, J M. 1948. 'A miscellany of antiquities in Easter Ross and Sutherland', Proc Soc Antiq Scot, Vol 80 (1945-46), pp 25-33. p 27.

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Jan 15 2010 1:19PM

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