Kirkshed, St John's Chapel

Scotland's National Record of the Historic Environment records Kirkshed, St John's Chapel as Chapel (medieval). The official map says its point is accurate as follows: NGR given to the nearest 10m. The record does not by itself mean that the public may enter the place.

St John's Chapel at Kirkshed is associated with St John the Baptist, a patron saint often linked to healing and protection in Scottish tradition. While specific cures or rituals connected to the site are not well documented, such chapels were frequently sites of local pilgrimage and may have been connected to nearby holy wells or customs of seasonal observance.