What is recorded here
Scotland's National Record of the Historic Environment records Kirkton as Chapel (medieval) - (post Medieval)(possible), Well (medieval) - (post 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.
Linked to an unidentified medieval chapel, the Kirkton well may have been a site of Christian pilgrimage and local healing traditions, common in rural Scotland where holy wells were often associated with saintly intercession or natural curative properties. Little specific folklore survives, but such sites were frequently used for seasonal rituals and water-related blessings.
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Places near here
KirktonCup and Ring Marked Stone (prehistoric) · 170 yd
Arbuthnott Parish ChurchBurial Ground (13th Century), Church (13th Century) · 717 yd
Lewis Grassic Gibbon MemorialMemorial · 763 yd
Arbuthnott War MemorialMemorial · 1020 yd
Criminal's ClumpWood · 1098 yd
Arbuthnott HouseCountry House (18th Century) (1754), Motte (medieval)(possible), Tower House (medieval) · 1482 yd
Arbuthnott House, North BridgeRoad Bridge (period Unassigned) · 1499 yd
Upper CraighillFarmstead (period Unassigned) · 1.6 mi
Banff WoodForest · 1.6 mi
LargieCastle (medieval) · 1.9 mi
Bervie BayBay · 2.2 mi
Horse Crook BayBay · 2.7 mi