Dornoch, 'Priory'
Classifications: Priory(Medieval) (Possible)
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Location Details
Local authority: Highland
Parish: Dornoch
Former region: Highland
Former district: Sutherland
Former county: Sutherland
Further details
Site number: NH78NE 15
National Record of the Historic Environment (NRHE) ID: 14620
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Dornoch, 'Priory', NH78NE 15, Ordnance Survey index card, pa…
Records of the Ordnance Survey, Southampton, Hampshire, England
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Records of the Ordnance Survey, Southampton, Hampshire, England
Dornoch, 'Priory', NH78NE 15, Ordnance Survey index card, Re…
Records of the Ordnance Survey, Southampton, Hampshire, England
1 Note
Category: Descriptive accounts
Event reference: 663440
NH78NE 15 c. 799 895
Spottiswoode (1824) states a house of monks is said to have been founded at Dornoch in 1271 by Sir Patrick Murray. Brockie suggests that Trinitarians were brought to Dornoch about 1272.
There is no other evidence of such a foundation and it is missing from MS lists so it must be considered very doubtful.
Wyness ('Map of Dornoch', 1926) shows its probable site as the same as that of the Celtic monastery (NH78NE 14) but on what evidence is not stated.
J Spottiswoode 1824; C D Bentinck 1926; D E Easson 1957; M Brockie nd.
Traditionally in the vicinity of the Free Church (NH 7990 8957) according to Miss MacKay (E R MacKay, Ach na Craobhan, Rearquhar).
Visited by OS (A A), 31 March 1971.
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References
Bentinck C D. (1926) Dornoch: cathedral and parish, Inverness. Page(s): opposite 142 RCAHMS Shelf Number: D.6.53.DOR
Brockie M. ({n.d.}) MS collections of Fr Marianus Brockie, in Scottish Catholic Archives, Edinburgh,
Cowan and Easson I B and D E. (1976) Medieval religious houses in Scotland: with an appendix on the houses in the Isle of Man, 2nd London. Page(s): 94 RCAHMS Shelf Number: C.3.2.EAS.R
Easson D E. (1957a) Medieval religious houses in Scotland: with an appendix on the houses in the Isle of Man, London. Page(s): 94 RCAHMS Shelf Number: C.3.2.EAS
Spottiswoode J S. (1824) 'An account of all the religious houses that were in Scotland at the time of the Reformation', in Keith, R An Historical Catalogue of the Scottish Bishops, (Russel, M (ed.)). Edinburgh. Page(s): 397
