Kintail, parish

Grid reference

NG 946 210 (accurate position)

Six-figure easting & northing

194600 821000

Latitude

57.233724354960515

Longitude

-5.403706766974798

Altitude (metres)

10

Nearby places

St Dubhthach's Church, Kintail (0 miles)

Cill Fhearchair, cemetery, Glenshiel (1.45 miles)

Cill a' Chaoin-tearn, settlement, Glenshiel (2.5 miles)

Loch Duich, Kintail (2.85 miles)

Cill a' Chaoin-tearn, ~eccles. Glenshiel (2.85 miles)

Object Classification

Parish (extant in 1975)

Is linear feature?

No

Notes

The NGR given is for OS 'St Dubhthach's Church (remains of)', a late medieval building still in use in c.1855.

Relationships with other parishes

Contains Glenshiel, moder parish (formerly)

Relationships with other places

Contains Killilan, eccles., Kintail

Contains Killilan, eccles., Kintail

Contains Killilan, settlement, Kintail

Contains Loch Duich, Kintail

Contains St Dubhthach's Church, Kintail

Contains St Duthac's, RC chapel, Kintail

Parish details

Kintail formerly included Glenshiel GLL

Parish TLA

KIT

County

Ross-shire

Medieval diocese

Ross

Parish notes

Not in Bagimond 1274 [Ross not in ibid. 1275] The church, both in parsonage and vicarage, became a common church of the cathedral of Ross shortly after 1256, it being one of the churches of ‘Argyll’ so granted, and thereafter remaining so annexed (Vet. Mon. no.clxxxii; RSS vi no.3173; Reg. of Pres. i 114v). Cowan 1967, 116. About the middle of the 18th c Kintail was divided into two parishes, Kintail and Glensheil GLL. The old and extensive parish of Kintail is bounded on the south by Glenelg, runs northwards along the boundary between INV & ROS as far as Loch Monar, and has on the north west the water of Long and the salt-water lochs of Lochlong and Lochalsh. .. The church apparently dedicated to Saint Duthac bp. of Ross, stood at Kilduich at the head of Loch Duich. It was burned in 1719, and has since been repaired or rebuilt. The church of Glensheil was built in 1758 east of Loch Duich on the estate of Letterfearn. OPS ii pt 2, 391. No changes noted in Shennan 1892.