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List of names as written Various modes of spelling Authorities for spelling Situation Description remarks
URQUHART PRIORY (Site of) Priory
Priory
Priory
Priory of Urquhart
priory of Urquhart
The Priory
priory of Urquhart
A. Lawson Esqr Factor
Revd. [Reverend] Gordon Ingram
Mr P. Dunn.
Morayshire Descibed page 326
New Statistical Account
Old Statistical Account
Dr. [Doctor] Shaw's Survey of Morayshire
008.11 This name applies to the Site of the Priory of Urquhart, Situated about one half mile to the northeast of the viallge of Urquhart. Nothing now remains to mark the spot where this building stood, the ground being under cultivation. "The Priory was founded by King David the 1 A.D.1125 in honour of the Trinity. It was a branch of the Priory of Dunfermline, planted with Benedictine or Black Monks of the Order of Fleurie" (See Reverend L. Shaw's province of Moray.) Its ample possessions shared the fate of the property of the church throughout the Kingdom, in the reign of James the VI (See Stat.Act.) [Statistical Account] It is on the property of the Earl of Fife. Duff H. [House] Banffshire.
CROSS HILLOCK Cross Hillock
Cross Hillock
Cross Hillock
A. Lawson Esqr. Factor
Revd. [Reverend] Gordon Ingram
Mr P. Dunn
008.11 This name is applied to a small knoll, Situated about one quarter of a mile to the northwest of the farmsteading called Kempston. The Knooll is covered with fir wood. About one hundred and twenty yards to the west of this hillock, there was found a stone coffin containing human remains A.D. 1840.
It is on the property of the Earl of Fife.

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County of Elgin -- Parish of Urquhart

Site of
Urquhart Priory
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Stone Coffin containing Human Remains
found here A.D. 1840

[signed top left corner on diagonal] A.B.C. [Arthur Blayney Coddington] Lt RE [Lieutenant Royal Engineers]

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