St Ninian's Chapel, Dull

Grid reference

NN 808 490 (accurate position)

Six-figure easting & northing

280600 749100

Latitude

56.618645077429136

Longitude

-3.945979307291162

County

Perthshire

Nearby places

Dull, parish (0 miles)

St Adomnán's Church, Dull (0.06 miles)

Tobar Eonain, Dull (0.2 miles)

Kammer-awnan, setlement, Dull (0.26 miles)

Balhomais, Dull (1.07 miles)

Object Classification

Ecclesiastical

Is linear feature?

No

Notes

This 'chapel' appears to be a figment of the nineteenth-century imagination, first appearing as an assertion by the minister in 1845 (NSA x, 766). There is some doubt as to whether or not there was a chambered cairn or a corn-drying kiln at this site, but archaeologists do not suspect the existence of a chapel. The name given (e.g. on OS 6 inch 1st edn in 1867) may have arisen from a misunderstanding or garbling of Sanct Eunan's (i.e. St Adomnán's), or *Cill Eonáin ('Adomnán's Church'), or something of the sort.

Relationships with other parishes

Within Dull, parish

Within Dull, parish