page_title: Kilwinning Abbey
section_title: Associated chapels
hierarchical_section_title: Kilwinning Abbey / Associated chapels
caption_attribution_description: English: Celebratory launch of archaeological dig at Kilwinning Abbey, North Ayrshire, Scotland
context_page_description: Kilwinning Abbey is a ruined abbey located in the centre of the town of Kilwinning, North Ayrshire.
context_section_description: Three or possibly four chapels associated with the abbey may have existed before the reformation; one in the vicinity of either Chapelholm Wood or Benslie wood; one at Weirston; another at Stanecastle gate; and a fourth near the Drukken Steps.
  Evidence for these chapels is the Chapelcroft farm that existed near Laigh Moncur, becoming the old deer shelter in the Deer Park, and a Chapel Bridge over the Lugton Water. A John Rankin in 1694 is recorded as living at an 'Eglinton Chapel'. The Weirston chapel is said to have been the private chapel of the Montgomerie family, dedicated to Saint Wyssyn and in use up to as late as 1570. Father Elmerides Hentyson may have been their priest. The placename 'Ladyha' survives near Weirston, a likely reminder of our 'Lady', the Virgin Mary; farms here of this name are recorded in the Hearth Tax records of the 1690s.
caption: Launch of archaeological dig in August 2010
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