What is recorded here
Chapel Hill and Orchard may have held a medieval chapel or tower house, though no certain fact exists to confirm which. The hill and orchard still carry that uncertainty, inviting imagination to fill the gap left by silence.
Scotland's National Record of the Historic Environment records Chapel Hill and Orchard as Chapel (medieval)(possible), Tower House (medieval)(possible). The official map says its point is accurate as follows: NGR given to the nearest 100m. The record does not by itself mean that the public may enter the place.
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