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List of names as written Various modes of spelling Authorities for spelling Situation Description remarks
PRIORY (In Ruins) [Beauly] Priory (In Ruins) Priory (In Ruins) Priory (In Ruins) Extracts from Parish Statistical Accounts
Mr Fraser Inspector of Poor Beauly
Mr Thomas Fraser Blacksmith Beauly
002 [continued from previous page] by James Bisset of Lovat in the year 1230. The ruins bear no trace of Turret or Steeple and all entirely destitute of sculpture or ornament, but the area they enclose is nearly covered with tombstones of our unknown antiquity. The north aisle belongs to the McKenzies of Gairloch, and the effigy of a recumbent Knight in full panoply under an archer canopy, makes the resting place of Sir Kenneth McKenzie, eighth Laird of Kintail, who died in 1493. The other divisions of it consist of the burying places of the principal branches of the Clan Fraser, of the Chisholms and other Clans of Strathglass

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County of Inverness -- Parish of Kilmorack

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