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[Page] 86 -- HISTORICAL MONUMENTS (SCOTLAND) COMMISSION.

PARISH OF LATHERON.

of the bank above the road to the W. of the former stream, is the site
of a chapel and graveyard. Slight surface indications alone remain.
O.S.M., CAITH., xlii. Visited, 20th July 1910.

311. Chapel, Braemore. - Immediately to the W. of Braemore
Lodge is an old graveyard still in use, and within it is the site of a
chapel. The ruins are said to have been pulled down about the middle
of last century.
Wells are indicated on the O.S. map to the N. and S. of the site.
See Macfarlane's Geog. Coll., i. p. 166; Eccles. Hist. Caith., p. 65.
O.S.M., CAITH., xxxviii. Visited, 22nd July 1910.

312. Chapel, Ballachly, Dunbeath. - At Ballachly, about 1/2 m. to the
N.W. of Dunbeath, is the site of a chapel. From the haugh land near
the river there rises a ridge some 80 to 100 yards in length, and at
right angles to it there runs towards the river a wall 5' thick and still
some 8' to 10' high. Along the level to the base of the ridge at the
W. are the ruins of a similar massive wall. Bishop Forbes records
that he was told on his visit to Caithness in 1762 that here "had
been a small monastery called of old the Chapel or Church of Peace."
See Forbes' Journals, p. 191; Macfarlane's Geog. Coll., i. p. 164.
O.S.M., CAITH., xxxix. and xliii. Visited, 28th July 1910.

313. "Carn Fhionn," Braemore. - This structure, which is said to
have been a broch, has been completely removed.
O.S.M., CAITH., xxxviii. ("Pict's House"). Visited, 22nd July 1910.

The O.S. maps indicate sites as under:-
314. Pict's House, Carn Liath, about 3/4 m. E. of Corriechoich
O.S.M., CAITH., xxxvii.

315. Pict's House, 1/2 m. NW. of Langwell
House. O.S.M., CAITH., xlii.

316. Cairn, Ramscraigs. O.S.M., CAITH., xlii.

PARISH OF OLRIG.

ECCLESIASTICAL STRUCTURES.

317. Church of St Trothan's. - About 1/2 m. N. of Olrig House are
the ruins of the parish church of Olrig known as St Trothan's. The
structure is roofless and the gables and walls, entirely overgrown
with ivy, are levelled to a height of about 10' all round. The church
has measured 49' x 26' over all. It presents no features of interest,
and is said to have been erected in 1633.
Font. - Standing on the left side of the gate giving access to the
churchyard is an old font. It is a cylindrical block of sandstone, 1' 8"
in height and 1' 5 1/2" in diameter, hollowed out at both ends. The
basin is in shape an inverted cone 10" in depth and 5" in diameter
at the top. A plain roll-moulding encircles the block at the base,
and rising from this to within 6"' of the top of the font are five equi-
distant vertical roll-mouldings.
See Origines, ii., pt. ii. p. 787; Muir's Eccles. Notes, p. 109.
O.S.M. CAITH., vi. Visited, 31st August 1910.