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<< Our Photo Pages >> Diarmid's Grave - Cairn in Scotland in Argyll

Submitted by PaulH on Friday, 15 August 2003  Page Views: 7840

Neolithic and Bronze AgeSite Name: Diarmid's Grave Alternative Name: Strontoiller; Strontoiller 1
Country: Scotland County: Argyll Type: Cairn
Nearest Town: Oban
Map Ref: NM9077828950  Landranger Map Number: 49
Latitude: 56.406306N  Longitude: 5.392568W
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
3 Ambience:
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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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no data 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
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hidebasket visited on 19th Feb 2023 - their rating: Cond: 3 Amb: 4 Access: 4

Anne T visited on 17th Jul 2018 - their rating: Cond: 3 Amb: 4 Access: 5 Strontoiller (Small Cairn), next to the Clach Na Carraig standing stone: This was perhaps the most amusing encounter of our whole trip, involving a human and two sheep. As we pulled up by the cattle grid at NM 90788 28935, just before some houses set back from the road, I heard a man’s voice repeatedly shouting loudly: “Go away! Get out of here! Get out!” Thinking he might possibly be shouting at us because of where we’d left the car, I hopped across the cattle grid, only to be almost knocked off my feet by two very large lambs hurtling back across the cattle grid into the field. “Oh, I wasn’t shouting at you”, the man said. “Been naughty?” I asked him, pointing back to the sheep. “It’s always the lambs”, he said, closing the gate. I asked him if it was OK to park where we where to look at the stone circle, and he replied, “It’s OK. Go ahead. It’s over there.” He pointed, rapidly closing the farm gate into his driveway and scuttled back to his house. The gate into the field was a little further west along the road, at the junction of the road with the driveway to Stontoiller Farmhouse/Cottage. We let ourselves into the field and walked across to where this neat little stone circle lay, the stones almost buried in tall grass and marsh grass at this time of year. We did a ‘round tour’ of the field, starting off by photographing this neat little cairn, then the stone circle, then the larger cairn, and finally coming back to the standing stone and the small cairn. Note: the Portal’s page for this site is called ‘Diarmid’s Grave’. I’ve not yet come across any reference with this name in. I’d be curious to know more.

SandyG visited on 13th Mar 2017 - their rating: Cond: 4 Amb: 3 Access: 5

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Diarmid's Grave
Diarmid's Grave submitted by PaulH : A kerb cairn near Strontoiller Farm to the east of Oban with the standing stone of Clach na Carraig in the background. (Vote or comment on this photo)
Kerb cairn in Argyll

A kerb cairn near Strontoiller Farm to the east of Oban. The standing stone of Clach na Carraig stands in the background.

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Diarmid's Grave
Diarmid's Grave submitted by postman : Looking north west (Vote or comment on this photo)

Diarmid's Grave
Diarmid's Grave submitted by SandyG : View from the south. (Vote or comment on this photo)

Diarmid's Grave
Diarmid's Grave submitted by SandyG : View from the east. (Vote or comment on this photo)

Diarmid's Grave
Diarmid's Grave submitted by Anne T : Standing just to the east of Strontoiller 1 cairn (we haven't come across any reference to it being known a Diarmid's Grave - an interesting connection I'd love to know more about), looking over to Clach Na Carraig standing stone. [In looking up info on the Clach Na Carraig standing stone, one of the stones' alternative names is 'Clach Dhiarmaid - hence the connection with Diarmid's Grave] (Vote or comment on this photo)

Diarmid's Grave
Diarmid's Grave submitted by Anne T : Standing between Clach Na Carraig standing stone and the small Strontoiller 1 cairn, looking east-north-east to try and capture the mound of the cairn. (Vote or comment on this photo)

Diarmid's Grave
Diarmid's Grave submitted by Anne T : The Strontoiller landscape: in the foreground, the Strontoiller 1 (small cairn in the middle); Clach Na Carraig Standing Stone (left). In the background, the location/position of the stone circle is marked (back, middle left) then another cairn, just known as Strontoiller (back, middle right).

Diarmid's Grave
Diarmid's Grave submitted by Bladup : Diarmid's Grave.

Diarmid's Grave
Diarmid's Grave submitted by coin : Another standing stone? or a stone from the cairn?

Diarmid's Grave
Diarmid's Grave submitted by coin : Little cairn and stone

Diarmid's Grave
Diarmid's Grave submitted by Bladup : The kerbstones of Diarmid's Grave with Clach na Carraig behind.

Diarmid's Grave
Diarmid's Grave submitted by postman : Looking north east

clach na carra & Diarmid's grave
clach na carra & Diarmid's grave submitted by caradoc68 : Clach na carra & Diarmid's grave. NM 908 289. The granite monolith stands 3.81 metres in height. It is said that the stone mark's the spot where Diarmid the flingalian hero, died and was buried. Take a wander in to the field as Strontoiller stone circle is tucked away at the back.

Diarmid's Grave
Diarmid's Grave submitted by Tom_Bullock : Photo used by kind permission of Tom Bullock. More details of this location are to be found on his Stone Circles and Rows CD-ROM.

Diarmid's Grave
Diarmid's Grave submitted by Nick : Although rather dominated by Clach na Carraig, the huge standing stone just adjacent to it, the kerb cairn is in pretty reasonable shape, with 12 of the original 15 stones surviving.

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