<< Our Photo Pages >> Cill Donnain - Early Christian Sculptured Stone in Scotland in Highlands
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Date UncertainSite Name: Cill DonnainCountry: Scotland
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County: Highlands Type: Early Christian Sculptured Stone
Nearest Village: Invergarry
Map Ref: NH26580276
Latitude: 57.083076N Longitude: 4.863163W
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3 | Reasonable but with some damage |
2 | Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site |
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5 | Can be driven to, probably with disabled access |
4 | Short walk on a footpath |
3 | Requiring a bit more of a walk |
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Below the A87 at Minurgie, on the side away from Loch Garry is a roughly elliptical disused graveyard containing a mound which is reputedly the church founded by St Donnan on Loch Garry around the end of the 6th Century. The road at this point has been built on a causeway; in the past the site would have looked down to the loch, which itself has been raised by a hydroelectric dam. According to WD Simpson (1935), there was cairn here where tradition said St Donnan was buried. (See Canmore NH20SE 4.)
St Donnan was a contemporary and friend of S. Columba and led a mission to Northern Scotland. He was martyred in his Church at Eigg, on the 17th April, 617 A.D. Tradition says that the day was being observed as Easter Sunday. (See "St Donnan the Great, and his muinntir." Rev Archibald Black Scott, DD. Published in the Transactions of the Scottish Ecclesiological Society, vol i, part iii. Aberdeen. 1906.)
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