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Early Medieval (Dark Age)Site Name: St Fillan's Chapel (Comrie) Alternative Name: St Fillian's ChapelCountry: Scotland County: Perth and Kinross Type: Ancient Cross
Nearest Town: Comrie Nearest Village: St Fillans
Map Ref: NN7038323579
Latitude: 56.386657N Longitude: 4.100992W
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| 3 | Reasonable but with some damage |
| 2 | Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site |
| 1 | Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks |
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| 5 | Can be driven to, probably with disabled access |
| 4 | Short walk on a footpath |
| 3 | Requiring a bit more of a walk |
| 2 | A long walk |
| 1 | In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find |
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Anne T visited on 28th Sep 2017 - their rating: Cond: 2 Amb: 4 Access: 4 St. Fillan's Chapel, west of Comrie: From Wester Tullybannocher Stone Circle, we carried on west along the A85, turning left into a road leading down to St. Fillan’s Golf Club and Western Dundurn Farm. Just before the farm buildings, the track splits. The eastern most track is gated off, and the road was very narrow, so we squeezed the car in by the gate intending to run back and move it if it got in the way. There was a herd of cattle in the field, although the churchyard has a dry stone wall around it.
Walking along the track, watched curiously by the golfers on the adjacent course, until I was level with the church ruins (very like Logie Old Kirk), then squidged my way through the wet turf to the far side, where the iron gate to the churchyard was locked, but there was a stone stile into the graveyard.
This is a very, very pretty spot. It is a very old site. Typically, there was no phone signal here so I couldn’t call up the Canmore record. I went round photographing lots of different things. I managed to miss the recumbent cross slab (most of them were overgrown with grass), although there were a couple of other interesting stones and features. Lovely site but disappointing not to have found the cross slab, even though I must have looked at it.
Also known as St Fillian's; Dundurn Burial-ground; Stewarts Of Ardvoirlich Burial-place.
This early medieval cross slab has been recorded as part of Canmore ID 24872. Canmore tell us that the present chapel at this site, now ruined, was built in the 16th century, but is on the site of a much earlier chapel built by St. Fillan in the 7th century. The curvilinear burial ground is still preserved. Canmore add that nothing much remains of this chapel except a round stone basin, now in Dundurn Parish Church.
There is a cross slab, said to date from the time of the original church, which is to be found a few metres south of the south wall of the church. In 2014, it was found lying flat, but comparing photographs on the Canmore site page, the stone has been stood upright (indicated by an arrow in the main photograph).
The chapel is in a superb location, with Loch Earn to the east, the River Earn just to the north and Fillan's Hill with Dundurn hillfort to the east-south-east.
The chapel can be reached by driving down a small track leading to St Fillans Golf Club, to the east of Loch Earn, but following the track further down towards Wester Dundurn Farm. Just before the driveway to the farm, there is a gated track leading east to the chapel.
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