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John Buchan, Esq., M.P. Elsfield Manor Oxford

Ffrwdgrech Brecon Wales

From: Rev. A. Campbell Fraser, Rokeby Rectory, Barnard Castle, Co. Durham.

I accidently came upon the following last night which fully justifies your mention of 'Appin Kirk': - so it is I who must now say, Peccavi.

"It" (that is the ruined church with the date 1749) "must however mark the site of a church previously built there, and also of an earlier Prebyterian building, from the fact that there are some old Celtic tombstones of an age far anterior to the present building, and also references in the Presbytery records of 1660 to the "new Kirk of Appin" ' Donaldson's Wanderings in the Western Highlands p.310.

Further in the same p.276 "the silver altas vessels inscribed 'Parish of Appin 1723' are still in use" in the Episcopal Church at Ballachulish

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