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a chapel, which was dedicated to St. Annan or St. Ennan, and granted for the support of the chaplain in it an annual rent of 10 merks from certain lands, "with two sowmes of pasture grass in the mains of Southennan,

Fig. 1592.—Southannan Chapel and Castle. View from West.

and an acre of land on the north side of the cemetery belonging to the said chapel for the chaplain's manse. This grant was confirmed by the king in June 1509. The ruins of the chapel are still extant in the

Fig. 1593.—Southannan Chapel and Castle. North-West Angle of Courtyard.

front of the fine mansion of Southennan, which is also in ruins." "Saint Inan or Innan is said to have been a confessor at Irvine, and to have died in 839."