St Brendan's Chapel, Skipness

The St Brendan 's Chapel, also Kilbrannan Chapel or Skipness Chapel, is a ruined church in the northeast of Scotland's Kintyre peninsula. It is located near the small village Skip Ness near the Cape Skip Ness Point on Kilbrannan Sound. In 1971 the St Brendan 's Chapel was added to the Scottish lists of monuments in the highest category A. The church was dedicated to St. Brendan. It is now considered one of the best preserved medieval church buildings in Argyll and Bute

History

The exact construction of the church is not known, but it can be dated to the late 13th or early 14th century. It replaced while the older St Columba 's Chapel, whose remains were later used in the construction of Skipness Castle. At least until 1692, the church was in use and was probably abandoned during the 18th century. You may be focused on the task in connection with the church to be built in about four kilometers south-west to Claonaig.

Cemetery

Within the ruins are five medieval grave slabs. On the south and east of the church cemetery located several recent cross plates are obtained in addition to medieval tombs. The cemetery is fenced by a stone wall. As part of an archaeological investigation excavated trenches were discovered in the northeast, which point to a planned expansion of the cemetery, which was, however, no longer made. Near the church wall two graves were found, probably from an earlier time when the church wall. Part of the cemetery was reserved as a burial place of the local branch of the clan Campbell whose graves are designed partial consuming.