Kirk Research Info

Large Description of Galloway by Andrew Symson, Minister of Kirkinner written 1684. Published by Andrew Symson, 1823 TRAQUEER. The Bishop of Galloway is patron hereof; it being a pendicle of the Abbacy of Tongueland, of which more hereafter, when we shall have occasion to answer the querie concerning the revenues of the Bishoprick of Galloway. […]

Tongland Parish Church sits in the graveyard at Tongland alongside the remains of its predecessor, and most likly on the site of the medieval Abbey of Tongland. As you can see from the video above, it is in a poor condition, now roofless, having been last used for worship in the 1930’s. Canmore Link http://canmore.rcahms.gov.uk/en/site/215036/ […]

Sadly this well no longer exists, being filled in during the late 1960’s early 1970’s.  The RCAHMS record for the site indicates that during their visit in 1972the water from the well was now piped to a tank 50m south west of the well. E M H Mckerlie desrbes the well as: ”an oblong aperture, […]

E. M. H. McKerlie writting in her ‘Pilgrim Spots in Galloway’ in 1916 tells us that she believed Lochelletun (Lochelton) was proably the original name for the Parish or church, probably Keton Old.   She tells us the name was mentioned in a grant to the Abbey of Holyrood by Uchtred, Lord of Galloway. She […]

Fir Island sitting in Carlingwark Loch, Castle Douglas is relativly small.  There are local traditions that the island may have been the home of a small Chapel, but there are no remains visible on the Island. In the 1st Statistical account of Scotland published in the 1790’s (vol III 297-307) the write of the Kelton […]

Constructed in 1831 on the side of a hill beside the old remains of the old church of 1771, mainly the Gordon Aisle, 1546, burial place of the Gordons of Lochinvar.   and the ‘King’s Ford’, on the Pilgrimage route to Whithorn. Construction is whinstone and sandstone walls and a slate roof. It is in full ecclesiastical […]

Kelton Parish Church was constructed in 1805 uphill and over looking the site of the Old Parish Church which still survives as an old graveyard.  only one very small section of the old church still survives holding up a memorial stone. The church is still in use today. A bit of its history can be […]

Buittle Parish Church was constructed in 1819 with Sandstone used for the main walls and slate for the roof.

Anwoth Old Kirk The old Kirk of Anwoth is situated about 2 miles west of  Gatehouse-of-Fleet, within a walled churchyard on the right bank of a small stream called the Skyreburn. In plan, it is a simple oblong measuring about 21.34m by 5.59m , within walls not exceeding 1.07m in thickness. There is a doorway […]