Lochalsh, parish, aka Kilchoan

Grid reference

NG 829 272 (accurate position)

Six-figure easting & northing

182900 827200

Latitude

57.28391830881393

Longitude

-5.602593488011419

Nearby places

Kilchoan, eccles., Lochalsh (0 miles)

Angels' Hill, Lochalsh (0.18 miles)

Loch Anna, Lochalsh (3.22 miles)

Castle Donnan, Lochalsh (3.29 miles)

Eilean Donnan, Lochalsh (3.29 miles)

Object Classification

Parish (extant in 1975)

Is linear feature?

No

Notes

NGR for the kirk at Kirkton of Lochalsh, early nineteenth century, on the site of an earlier kirk, which in turn was on the site of a church burned down in the fifteenth century (NMRS).

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Relationships with other places

Contains Angels' Hill, Lochalsh

Contains Castle Donnan, Lochalsh

Contains Eilean Donnan, Lochalsh

Contains Kilchoan, eccles., Lochalsh

Contains Kilchoan, eccles., Lochalsh

Contains Loch Anna, Lochalsh

Parish details

Lochalsh formerly Kilchoan.

Parish TLA

LAL

County

Ross-shire

Medieval diocese

Ross

Parish notes

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 v no.3173; Reg. of Pres. i 29). Cowan 1967, 135. Parish kirk dedicated to Comgan or Congan (Kilchoan 1640s Gordon/or 1590s Pont, county of Ross [Stone 1991, Plate 33]. See also Watson 1904, 189 & 1926, 281 (for which see also for other Comgan dedications). The land of Lochalsh, as part of North Argyll, was included among the lands of the earl of Ross, erected by King John into the sheriffdom of Skey in 1292 (APS i, 91, quoted OPS ii (2), 396 (Lochalsh ibid. pp.395-8). ‘It was in consequence of Alexander II granting North Argyle to the earl of Ross that it took the name of Ross-shire’ (Forbes, Kalendars, 310). But the latest ref. I have found to this area as ‘North Argyle’ is temp. David II (see RRS vi & Taylor forthcoming (Fillan).) Not mentioned in Shennon 1892.