The site of the early medieval St. Patrick's Chapel. It is thought that it was in use between circa AD500 and AD1000. Almost all trace of the chapel and its burial ground were removed by the mid-19th century and the stones used to construct mine buildings. In 1860 it was reported that two large "door pillars" still stood at the southern entrance to the keeill and were the only remaining parts of the structure to survive.  One of these stones was reported in 1840 to be inscribed with "ancient lettering" which had subsequently been obliterated.  One of these large stones was later built into the wall of Ballakilpheric Methodist Chapel ( SC 22507127) and is a smooth, rounded stone with no markings visible. The second stone is no longer to be found. 


The extent of the chapel's burial ground is not known but graves have been discovered over a wide area. Canon E.B. Savage  recorded the frequent ploughing up of graves around the keeill site and in the fields to the east of it. In one grave, he writes, there were coins of Edgar which if correct would date the grave to about 970 AD. A lady who lived at Ballakilpheric about 1910 informed Bruce that she remembered seeing slab-lined graves containing human bones being ploughed up near the keeill-site. In March 1964, a burial protected by stone slabs was turned up by the farmer in a field border 140 yards west of the keeill-site. The 'covering slab' was actually a portion of a smoothly polished slate table-top and another slab bore faint scratchings suggesting two lozenges point to point. These features suggested a recent burial, probably early 19th century. The keeill-site, situated on land long under cultivation, shows no trace of church or burial-ground enclosure but it is just possible from a very low viewpoint to detect a slightly raised area at the top of rising ground.