Lochcarron
Associated Chapels: Seipeil Donnain {NG 830406}; ?Attadale - Uagh Ashoil {NG 925393}.
Parish Church: OS Ref: NGR NG958418 H.E.S. No: NG94SE 1 Dedication: St Maelrubhe
This parish includes a long narrow strip of hilly country extending about five miles north-west from the river Carron and the arm of the sea called Lochcarron, from which it is named, together with some detached lands lying within the parish of Applecross. On the coast are a few islands.
The ruins of the old parish church erected in 1751 and abandoned about 1845, when the modern church was built, are at (NG 914412). The church of Lochcarron was always dedicated to St. Maelrubha and the garth, or sanctuary, was known as Chombrich Mulroy - the garth of Maelrubha.
The church, both parsonage and vicarage, became a common church of the cathedral of Ross shortly after 1255/6, it being one of the churches of 'North Argyll' so granted, and thereafter remained annexed to the cathedral up to the time of the Reformation.
