What is recorded here
Scotland's National Record of the Historic Environment records Portsoy, St Comb's Road, St Comb'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 Comb's Chapel in Portsoy is associated with St Combs, a 6th-century Irish monk and martyr, who is said to have been beheaded for refusing to renounce Christianity. The site may have been a place of pilgrimage and local tradition links it to healing and protection, though specific cures or rituals are not well documented.
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Places near here
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