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No. 173 -- ECCLESIASTICAL MONUMENTS -- No. 178
garden is a re-used door-lintel from a 17th-century
building - perhaps the earlier church (supra) - broken at
the dexter end and bearing in relief, the inscription
HAC ITVR AS ASTRA ("By this way we rise to the stars").

707943 -- NS 79 SW -- 24 October 1952

173, Greyfriars Convent, Stirling (Site). Nothing
now remains of the Greyfriars Convent, which was
founded by James II in 1449 and demolished, apart from
its church, in 1559. ¹ The panel recording its position is
noted under No. 250. ²

794935 -- NS 79 SE (unnoted) -- 8 September 1954

174. Chapel, Cambusbarron (Site). No structural
remains now survive on the site marked on the 6-inch
O.S. map, but in 1858 some inhabitants of the village
remembered having seen a portion of the ruin still
standing. ³ Fleming suggests that the chapel was founded
at the end of the 15th century. ⁴

778925 -- NS 79 SE ("Chapel, site of") -- 28 October 1954

175. Chapel, Carnock (Site). The site of this chapel,
of which no structural remains survive, is marked by an
assemblage of loose stones and an inscribed iron panel.
The assemblage comprises a large flat slab; two large
blocks, each with a roll moulding along one arris; a
chamfered window-sill or lintel, cut for two lights each
11 in. wide and divided by a mullion; two fragments of
chamfered sills or lintels; and a tapering slab, 2 ft. 2 in.
long by 1 ft. 2 in. wide at its wider end, in which there
has been hollowed out a basin 9 1/2 in. in diameter by 4 in.
deep. This is most probably a holy-water stoup, and if
so it would help to attest the former existence of a pre-
Reformation chapel on the site.
Carnock has been identified with the "Kernach"
mentioned in Jocelyn's Vita S. Kentigerni. ⁵

865883 -- NS 88 NE -- 14 October 1954

176. Martyrs' Tomb, Burnfoot (Site). An upright slab
erected in 1865 on the SE. side of the Kilsyth-
Kirkintilloch highway at the third milestone from
Kilsyth, commemorates two Covenanters, John Wharry
and James Smith, who were hanged in Glasgow on 13th
June, 1683, after having had their right hands cut off,
and were subsequently hung in chains and then buried
at this spot. At the time, this road was presumably part
of the main route from Edinburgh to Glasgow, as the
more direct one by Cumbernauld was not opened until
1794. ⁶ The inscription on the slab states that it was set
up "in the room of the old tombstone", and with this
latter is perhaps to be identified a recumbent slab which
lies at the foot of the upright one and from which the
account of the martyrs' end has evidently been copied.
This recumbent stone, however, is apparently not con-
temporary with the killing of the martyrs, as the style of
its lettering suggests that it dates from the 18th rather
than from the 17th century.

672759 -- NS 67 NE -- 10 August 1953

177. Chapel of St. Mary and St. Michael, Buchanan
Old House (Site). The site of this chapel, which served
as a parish church after the abandonment of Inch-
cailleach (No. 163) in 1621 ⁷ until a new church was built
about 1764, is in the policies of Buchanan Castle some
300 yds. WNW. of Buchanan Old House (No. 329).
Nothing can now be seen on the site except some upright
stone blocks, which seem to demarcate the former extent
of the burying-ground. The mediaeval font, ⁸ which
may have come originally from Inchcailleach and was
removed from this site to the parish church in 1898, ⁹
was destroyed when that building was burned down;
but another relic, discovered in Drymen but said to
have come likewise from this chapel, ¹⁰ is now preserved
in the museum at Balmaha. This is an octagonal block
of sandstone 1 ft. 2 in. high by 11 1/2 in. in diameter, with
a basin 7 in. in diameter by 2 in. deep, hollowed in its
upper end. It is no doubt a holy-water stoup, and its
discoverer, the Rev. W. H. MacLeod, believed that it
had originally come from Inchcailleach. ¹¹

454889 -- NS 48 NE ("Chapel, site of") -- 13 May 1953

178. Chapel, Chapelarroch (Site). The farmhouse of
Chapelarroch stands by the old road from Drymen to
Gartmore, on the left bank of the Kelty Water. The
house is said to be of considerable age, but shows no
features of interest. At this place there once stood a
church dedicated to the Virgin Mary, which appears to
have possessed a graveyard and was attached to the
Priory of Inchmahome. ¹² The ruins were still standing in
1724, ¹³ and foundations could be seen in Guthrie Smith's
time, ¹⁴ but nothing survives today. It was at Chapelarroch
that Rob Roy kidnapped Graham of Killearn in 1716. ¹⁵

517958 -- NS 59 NW ("Chapelarroch on site of Chapel")
3 September 1952

1 Chalmers, G., Caledonia, ed. 1894, vii, 79.
2 See also History, 127, 310.
3 Ordnance Survey Name Book, St. Ninians parish, 95.
4 Castles and Mansions, 415.
5 Skene, Celtic Scotland, ii, 184; Studies in the Early British
Church, ed. Chadwick, 307 ff.
6 Stat. Acct., xviii (1796), 312.
7 Stat. Acct., ix (1793), 12.
8 Described with an illustration in P.S.A.S., lxviii (1933-4),
111 ff.
9 Ibid.
10 Ibid.
11 T.G.A.S., new series, iv, 81.
12 Strathendrick, 74, 269.
13 Origines, i, 38.
14 Strathendrick, 269.
15 Scott, Rob Roy (original edition of Waverley Novels,
No. VII), i, lxiv, cxxi f.

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