<< Our Photo Pages >> Tobar Chaluim Chille (Mull) - Holy Well or Sacred Spring in Scotland in Isle of Mull
Submitted by KiwiBetsy on Friday, 06 October 2006 Page Views: 6269
Springs and Holy WellsSite Name: Tobar Chaluim Chille (Mull) Alternative Name: St Columba’s Well (Mull)Country: Scotland
NOTE: This site is 4.392 km away from the location you searched for.
County: Isle of Mull Type: Holy Well or Sacred Spring
Nearest Town: Oban Nearest Village: Lochbuie
Map Ref: NM591244
Latitude: 56.350437N Longitude: 5.900557W
Condition:
5 | Perfect |
4 | Almost Perfect |
3 | Reasonable but with some damage |
2 | Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site |
1 | Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks |
0 | No data. |
-1 | Completely destroyed |
5 | Superb |
4 | Good |
3 | Ordinary |
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1 | Awful |
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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 |
2 | A long walk |
1 | In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find |
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5 | co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates |
4 | co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map |
3 | co-ordinates scaled from a bad map |
2 | co-ordinates of the nearest village |
1 | co-ordinates of the nearest town |
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Gongoozler visited on 3rd Apr 2023 - their rating: Cond: 4 Amb: 5 Access: 2 Thanks to the instructions from KiwiBetsy the spring was easy to find, although quite a good hike. Not very impressive in itself, but a great location. A local resident has confirmed that water from the spring has been used for baptisms at St Kildas church in Lochbuie
To locate this spring on Mull take the minor road to Lochbuie signed off the A849. In Lochbuie where the road reaches the loch, turn right and park at the end of the public road. Walk up the private road to Cameron Farm. Just before the farmhouse go through a gate on your left following the old track from Lochbuie to Carsaig. It passes some farm buildings on your left and goes through another gate and can be very wet. Follow this track along the hill and around the top of a small area of woodland. Keep on until the headland ahead to your left is behind you and you have tired of ravens cronking overhead. You come to a stone wall, go through the gap and immediately over a stream which will involve some stone hopping. To your left is another stone wall, follow it uphill to it’s corner (you are outside the pentagonal area it encloses) where the track forks. Take the less distinct branch to your left which follows the wall to its next corner. Here the track continues straight and climbs a bit as the wall gets further away on your left. Keep track of the wall as it goes out of sight behind a ridge as just before you are level with it’s next corner the well is on your right. There are 3 springs feeding into the head of a stream. Tobar Chaluim Chille is the first spring you reach. You may need to get onto the ridge and check out that corner of the wall to confirm location and anyway it’s worth it for the view over Loch Buie to Lagan Sands and Moy Castle.
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