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This building is a restoration (carried out from 1950-53, following historical research) of one that was dedicated in 1467. However, there is known to have been a chapel here in the fourteenth century. There may have been a religious building on this site from the early sixth century onwards. See Link (at Canmore) for more information on the building, and for details of an incised cross-slab kept within it.

This route from Balloch to the clachan of Kirkton was an old coffin road (see Link for more details); its destination was the burial ground at St Mahew's Chapel – Link – near Cardross. The eastern part of this old road lies upon one of several parallel ridges; the underlying geology must therefore have played an important role in determining its course.