Chapel of St Dennis, Pan Ha', Dysart

Chapel of St Dennis, Pan Ha', Dysart

A chapel dedicated to St Denis/Denys, one of the patron saints of France, is thought to have been located at Pan Ha' in Dysart. Writing in 1794, George Muirhead noted the local tradition that the chapel had been part of a Dominican Friary. Cowan and Easson concluded that there is no reliable evidence there was ever a Dominican house in Dysart, although it has been speculated that they owned property in the town. The ruins of the building were converted into a forge shortly before 1794, and an Ordnance Survey of 1954 found some old walls, but no remains of a chapel. There is no firm evidence for the chapel’s existence, with the earliest references dating to the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century.

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(1) Ian B Cowan and David E. Easson, Medieval religious houses in Scotland: with an appendix on the houses in the Isle of Man (London, 1976), p. 122 (2) Jim Swan & Carol McNeill, Dysart, A Royal Burgh (Dysart, 1997), (3) William Muir, ed, Notices of the Local Records of Dysart (Glasgow: Maitland Club 1853),

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Chapel of St Dennis, Pan Ha', Dysart

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