Carn Glas (Mains of Kilcoy)

Also known as:
Kilcoy I
Nearest town:
Dingwall (8km WNW)
OS reference:
NH578520
OS sheet:
26
Latitude:
57° 32' 8.94 N
Longitude:
4° 22' 32.09 W
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Images

Image of Carn Glas (Mains of Kilcoy) (Chambered Tomb) by thesweetcheat

Huge displaced slab next to the chamber. It appears to have been dug out since Audrey Henshall’s 1995 visit.

Image credit: A. Brookes (14.10.2014)
thesweetcheat
thesweetcheat Dec 18, 2014
Image of Carn Glas (Mains of Kilcoy) (Chambered Tomb) by thesweetcheat

There is lots of jumbled stone on the mound, but whether it represents part of the original structure or clearance isn’t obvious.

Image credit: A. Brookes (14.10.2014)
thesweetcheat
thesweetcheat Dec 18, 2014
Image of Carn Glas (Mains of Kilcoy) (Chambered Tomb) by thesweetcheat

The disturbed chamber, divided into separate sections by portal stones.

Image credit: A. Brookes (14.10.2014)
thesweetcheat
thesweetcheat Dec 18, 2014
Image of Carn Glas (Mains of Kilcoy) (Chambered Tomb) by new abbey

Pics of destroyed stones

Image credit: Extreme Stonefeelers' World of Hard Rock & Standing Stones
new abbey
new abbey Sep 20, 2010
Image of Carn Glas (Mains of Kilcoy) (Chambered Tomb) by new abbey

Pics of destroyed stones

Image credit: Extreme Stonefeelers' World of Hard Rock & Standing Stones
new abbey
new abbey Sep 20, 2010
Image of Carn Glas (Mains of Kilcoy) (Chambered Tomb) by new abbey

Pics of destroyed stones

Image credit: Extreme Stonefeelers' World of Hard Rock & Standing Stones
new abbey
new abbey Sep 20, 2010
Image of Carn Glas (Mains of Kilcoy) (Chambered Tomb) by new abbey

Pics of remains of the site

Image credit: Extreme Stonefeelers' World of Hard Rock & Standing Stones
new abbey
new abbey Sep 20, 2010

Articles

Carn Glas (Mains of Kilcoy)

markj99
markj99 Dec 21, 2020

I visited this site in 2012. It was in a poor state with still impressive exposed chambers. The site was not being maintained. This changed in February 2014 with the vegetation being cleared by local volunteers. A Brookes photos in late 2014 reflect the improved condition of the cairn at this time.
Subsequent to this it was decided to partially restore the chambers of Carn Glas (Mains of Kilcoy). Between November 2014 & September 2015 work was carried out on the chambers by the Adopt-a-Monument team. The chamber floors were then covered with chipped stones, and a new display board erected on the edge of the cairn. Further details of the restoration can be found in Canmore ID 12837 (go to Links).
No pictures of the restored cairn have been submitted so we will see if it has been a sympathetic restoration all in good time.

Carn Glas (Mains of Kilcoy)

new abbey
new abbey Sep 20, 2010

We visited the site on 16.09.10. It was certainly at the coordinates given by Greywether and we followed the path on the OS map though there are several others within yards. Still it’s hard to square our pics with his and Pigmyshrews. Several intervening years, a different season and some wanton destruction may explain this.

Several large stones around the edge, that from the weathering evident on their tops had once stood for centuries, had been fired and split – possibly only a few weeks before our visit as the smell of burning was still faintly noticeable. A very sad sight indeed so only a few pics of the damage are shown here.

Folklore

Carn Glas (Mains of Kilcoy)
Chambered Tomb
Rhiannon
Rhiannon Feb 6, 2008

This relates to many of the monuments in the area:

There are evident marks of a battle’s being fought in this parish. It is said to have been between the people of Inverness and the McDonalds, and to have happened in the 13th or 14th century. The plain on which this battle was fought, is to this day called Blair-na-coi; a name given it from this particular circumstance, that as one of the contending parties was giving way and flying, a tenant and his son who were ploughing on that field, had taken off the yokes with which the oxen were fastened together, rallied the routed troops, and with them recommenced the action and carried the day.

It would appear the battle was bloody, and desperately fought, from the vast number of cairns of stones that are still to be seen there, covering the dead. These the people still hold so sacred, that though the place was in tillage when the battle was fought, the marks of the ridges being still visible there, and though a great deal of the adjoining moor is now cultivated, not one of these cairns has ever een touched.

Another circumstance that strengthens this opinion is, that the heights and adjacent places go by the name of Druim-na-deor, “the height or the Hill of Tears.” To the E. of where the battle was fought, are to be seen the remains of a Druidical temple, called James’s Temple; and to the W. of the filed of battle, are to be seen the traces of a camp, and a similar one to it on the S. on the hill of Kessock, the highest hill in this parish, where there is also a pretty large cairn of stones, called Cairn-glas.

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From the Statistical Account, v12, 1794.

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Jun 2013

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