Alternative Names St Cormac's Church
Site type BURIAL GROUND, CHURCH
Canmore ID 64488
Site Number NX75NW 11
NGR NX 71610 57454
Council DUMFRIES AND GALLOWAY
Parish KELTON
Former Region DUMFRIES AND GALLOWAY
Former District STEWARTRY
Former County KIRKCUDBRIGHTSHIRE

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Archaeological Notes

NX75NW 11 71610 57454

(NX 7160 5746) Kirkcormack Kirk (NR) (Site of)
OS 6" map (1957)

NMRS REFERENCE

The ruined church of Kirkcormack which was dedicated to St Cormac, and belonged at one time to Iona (W J Watson 1926) is now almost reduced to its foundations, measuring 41' by 19'. The grave-slab of a Patrick Maclellan is at the W end of the ruin.
RCAHMS 1914, visited 1911

EXTERNAL REFERENCE:
ORDNANCE SURVEY

The remains of this church are visible as grass-covered mortared walls 0.8m wide by 1.3m max height, enclosing an area 11.7m E to W by 5.7m transversely with breaks in the SW and NE. The graveyard in which it stands is now disused. Name confirmed.
Resurveyed at 1/2500.
Visited by OS (RD) 16 February 1972

Brooke, C J (2000) Safe sanctuaries: security and defence in Anglo-Scottish border churches 1290-1690, Edinburgh
Page(s): 354 Held at RCAHMS F.5.31.BRO

RCAHMS (1914) The Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments and Constructions of Scotland. Fifth report and inventory of monuments and constructions in Galloway, II, county of the Stewartry of Kirkcudbright, Edinburgh
Page(s): 97, No.190 Held at RCAHMS A.1.1.INV(5)

Watson, W J (1926) The history of the Celtic place-names of Scotland: being the Rhind lectures on archaeology (expanded) delivered in 1916, Edinburgh
Page(s): 167-8 Held at RCAHMS C.4.2.WAT