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List of names as written Various modes of spelling Authorities for spelling Situation Description remarks
CHAPEL (Site of) [Kirkfield] Site of Chapel John Graham
Mr Macfarlane
William Robb Carpenter
Walter McIndoe
018 The Site of this Chapel or Kirk as it is Sometimes Called is about 8½ chains NE [North East] of the farmsteading of Kirkfield the occupier of which place about 4½ years ago removed a portion of the foundation.
That a chapel or Kirk was established here prior to the Reformation is the popular opinion in the Neighbourhood.

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Parish of Kilmaronock


"Another church or chapel must have been
planted at Ballagan, where the remains
of an old building, called Shan Eccles or
Old Kirk, may still be seen".- (Origines Parochiales)
"There are the remains of two Romish Chapels. (Old Stat Act [Statistical Account])

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