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| List of names as written | Various modes of spelling | Authorities for spelling | Situation | Description remarks |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Site of CHAPEL AND GRAVE YARD (Supposed) [Parbroath] | Chapel and Grave Yard (site of, supposed) | Robert Reid Parbroath David Bell Letham |
010 | [situation] About 2 1/4 miles N.N.E. [North North East] of the Village of Letham. The site of a grave yard on the farm of Parbroath. it is now and has long been disused as such and forms part of an arable field of ground and a part of the garden adjoining the farm house in making a fence through it for enclosing the garden about twenty five or thirty years ago. large quantities of human bones skulls etc were turned up the forementioned authority says that it is supposed to have been a burying place in connection with Parbroath Castle and might likely have had a chapel in connection with it |
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39 Parish of Creich Plan 10B Trace No. 1[Quotation] "In confirmation of a chapel having been here, it may be stated that a few years ago, when the foundation of a wall was dug up close by the site of the old barn, some graves were discovered, which probably formed part of the burying ground connected with the Chapel" Stat: Acct: [Statistical Account] of Fife page 645.
[Quotation] "Besides the parish Church there was also a chapel, though where it was situated, or how supported is not now known. It is supposed however to have been on the lands of Parbroath at the south end of the Parish." Leightons Hist. [History] of Fife Vol II [Volume 2] p.136
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