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<< Our Photo Pages >> Cill Donnain - Early Christian Sculptured Stone in Scotland in Highlands

Submitted by uisdean on Saturday, 21 April 2007  Page Views: 5814

Date UncertainSite Name: Cill Donnain
Country: Scotland
NOTE: This site is 17.312 km away from the location you searched for.

County: Highlands Type: Early Christian Sculptured Stone
 Nearest Village: Invergarry
Map Ref: NH26580276
Latitude: 57.083076N  Longitude: 4.863163W
Condition:
5Perfect
4Almost Perfect
3Reasonable but with some damage
2Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site
1Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks
0No data.
-1Completely destroyed
1 Ambience:
5Superb
4Good
3Ordinary
2Not Good
1Awful
0No data.
3 Access:
5Can be driven to, probably with disabled access
4Short walk on a footpath
3Requiring a bit more of a walk
2A long walk
1In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find
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4 Accuracy:
5co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates
4co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map
3co-ordinates scaled from a bad map
2co-ordinates of the nearest village
1co-ordinates of the nearest town
0no data
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Cill Donnain
Cill Donnain submitted by uisdean : Ancient gravestones in the churchyard at Munerigie. the graveyard was last used at the end of the 19th Century. (Vote or comment on this photo)
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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Cill Donnain
Cill Donnain submitted by uisdean : Possible remains of church founded by St Donnan. It is possible to make out traces of a small rectangular building in the grass. (Vote or comment on this photo)

Cill Donnain
Cill Donnain submitted by uisdean : The ancient elliptical churchyard at Munerigie on Loch Garry (NH 26580276) (Vote or comment on this photo)

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NH2602 : Kilfinnan Burial Ground beside A87 by Sarah McGuire
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NH2602 : Gravestones at Kilfinnan Burial Ground by Dave Fergusson
by Dave Fergusson
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NH2602 : Kilfinnan graveyard in the snow by Dave Fergusson
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©2009(licence)
NH2602 : Old burial ground at Kilfinnan by John Ferguson
by John Ferguson
©2009(licence)
NH2602 : Gate to Kilfinnan wood by Dave Fergusson
by Dave Fergusson
©2009(licence)

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