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<< Our Photo Pages >> St Columba's Cave - Cave or Rock Shelter in Scotland in Argyll

Submitted by KiwiBetsy on Monday, 06 December 2004  Page Views: 13362

Natural PlacesSite Name: St Columba's Cave
Country: Scotland
NOTE: This site is 4.236 km away from the location you searched for.

County: Argyll Type: Cave or Rock Shelter

Map Ref: NR751767
Latitude: 55.930606N  Longitude: 5.601932W
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
5 Ambience:
5Superb
4Good
3Ordinary
2Not Good
1Awful
0No data.
5 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
0No data.
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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St Columba's Cave
St Columba's Cave submitted by KiwiBetsy : .... and the crowds go to Iona! (Vote or comment on this photo)
St Columba’s Cave can be found, by those with a love of the remote, on the Knapdale Peninsula. St Columba stopped off here to meditate and minister 1400 years ago, after leaving Ulster, while he awaited permission from King Conal to establish his monastery on Iona.

The cave has been used on and off since the middle of the Stone Age and St Columba’s font is believed to have been a Stone Age mortar. Some way in, on a rock shelf to your right, is a stone altar and carved on the wall behind is a rustic, but clearly identifiable, cross.

With Loch Caolisport sparkling to your left and the road ahead leaving the loch edge and deteriorating to a 4 wheel drive track, park and to your right just a little way from the road will be the ivy clad ruins of a 13th century chapel. If the bracken isn’t winning, a path will lead through these ruins and on to the base of the cliff and the cave.

In the spring of 2003, the wild yellow azaleas and iris’s greeted us as they may have St Columba. It is an absolutely beautiful place, the silence broken only by the distant call of a cuckoo.

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Nearby Images from Geograph Britain and Ireland:
NR7576 : Ruins of St Columba's Chapel by Patrick Mackie
by Patrick Mackie
©2006(licence)
NR7576 : Altar in St Columba's Cave by Patrick Mackie
by Patrick Mackie
©2006(licence)
NR7576 : St Columba's Cave by Patrick Mackie
by Patrick Mackie
©2006(licence)
NR7576 : Erratic boulders by Jonathan Wilkins
by Jonathan Wilkins
©2016(licence)
NR7576 : Chapel of St Columba by Anne Burgess
by Anne Burgess
©2009(licence)

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Re: St Columba's Cave by Anonymous on Wednesday, 30 December 2009
Wallaces cave is easy to get to !!
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Re: St Columba's Cave by Anonymous on Wednesday, 22 October 2008
Does anyone knows anything about caves in Lothian area?? I've been to few in Kintyre and Arran but haven't seen any in Central Scotland so far. I heard about Wallace's Cave in Roslin Glen but it's impossible to get there!
Anything more???
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