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Graveyard and site of church. The church is said to have stood upon a mound in the middle of a basin-shaped hollow, surrounded by a marsh, and known as Monkeigie. There is a level platform tapering into the natural slope in the west which may be the foundations of the old kirk. In the 12th Century William the Lion granted a charter by which he confirmed the gift by his brother, Earl David of Huntingdon, to the church of St Mary and to the Bishop of Aberdeen of the tithes of 'Munkegyn' and adjoining kirks. The area surrounding the present burial-ground is covered by a mixture of a modern coniferous plantation, planted on what was formerly cultivated ground, mature deciduous woodland, which represents part of the 18th Century designed landscape around Keith Hall (NJ72SE0212), and a small area of open ground. The graveyard contains the First World War Commonwealth war grave of Sapper William Bothwell, Royal Engineers.
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Historic Environment Records (HER)