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List of names as written | Various modes of spelling | Authorities for spelling | Situation | Description remarks |
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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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[Page] 41County 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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DANIALSAN, hastingleigh
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