Lochbroom
Associated Chapels: Isle Martin {NH 096989}, Ullapool {NH 131941}, Coigach {unknown location}, Annat Bay {NH 019975}, Kildonnan {NH 079909}.
Parish Church: OS Ref: NGR NH 177848 H.E.S. No: NH18SE 1 Dedication: (unknown)
This large district (which of old may have included several parishes) is composed of four smaller tracts of country, namely, Coigeach, Lochbroom proper or the Meikle Strath, the Little Strath, and the Laigh. It is chiefly mountainous, but there are some cultivated valleys near the sea.
The earliest religious communities in Lochbroom were at Kildonnan and on Annat Bay, both associated with St Donnan the Martyr.
The church, both in parsonage and vicarage, became a common church of the cathedral of the cathedral of Ross shortly after 1255/6, it being one of the churches of 'Argyll' so granted, and thereafter remained so annexed up to the time of the Reformation.
The modern parish church, built in 1817, is on or near the site of its predecessor whch dates back at least to the early 13th-century - Matthew, the parson of Lochbroom, being mentioned in 1227. There is no trace of the ancient church.
