Alternative Names Kilmahog Graveyard
Site type BURIAL GROUND, CHAPEL
Canmore ID 24336
Site Number NN60NW 16
NGR NN 60914 08262
Council STIRLING
Parish CALLANDER
Former Region CENTRAL
Former District STIRLING
Former County PERTHSHIRE

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Archaeological Notes

NN60NW 16 centred 60914 08262

(NN 6097 0825) Chapel (NR) (Site of)
OS 6" map, (1958)

The ruins of an ancient church at Kilmahog dedicated to St Kessog (Kilmahog - cell of Kessog). On an intact gable hangs a 17th century bell.
A M Campbell 1961.

A freestanding metal plaque erected at NN 6091 0826 reads: "Foundations of Pre-Reformation Church", although no trace survives.
Kilmahog chapel, first mentioned in the calendar of Papal registers in 1259, was not dedicated to St Kessog but to St Mahog, and was probably a settlement of the old Celtic church or Culdees. The bell, which hangs in the relatively modern gable or arched gateway to the churchyard is not 17th century as it appears in a story about the mid 15th century. It bears the Graham arms and may well be older than 15th century (information from Rev M A MacCorquodale, St Kessog's Manse, Callander).
Visited by OS (R D) 1 November 1968.

Watson (1926) makes no mention of St Kessog or St Mahog. Instead he suggests an Irish saint, Cuaca.
W J Watson 1926.

NN 609 082. Nothing now remains of the church of the former parish of Kilmahog which was united to the parish of Callander in the 16th century. There was a church at Kilmahog by 1259.
RCAHMS 1979; H Scott 1915-61; I B Cowan 1967

Campbell, A M (1961) Let`s see Callander and the Trossachs,
Page(s): 23, 26

Cowan, I B (1967) The parishes of medieval Scotland, Scot Rec Soc, vol.93 Edinburgh
Page(s): 103 Held at RCAHMS C.3.2.COW

RCAHMS (1979b) The Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland. The archaeological sites and monuments of Stirling District, Central Region, The archaeological sites and monuments of Scotland series no 7 Edinburgh
Page(s): 34, No.307 Held at RCAHMS A.1.2.ARC(7)