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Springs and Holy WellsSite Name: Priest's Well (Strathfillan)Country: Scotland County: Stirling Type: Holy Well or Sacred Spring
Nearest Town: Tyndrum
Map Ref: NN36022845
Latitude: 56.419698N Longitude: 4.66001W
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 |
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| -1 | Completely destroyed |
| 5 | Superb |
| 4 | Good |
| 3 | Ordinary |
| 2 | Not Good |
| 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 |
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To request a healing, pilgrims looking for mental health were required to walk around the well three times and then throw in a pebble. Maybe they tried this more gentle approach before resorting to the nearby St Fillan’s Holy Pool for cure.
St Fillan built a priory on land that today is part of Kirkton Farm in Auchtertyre near Tyndrum. A burn runs down the valley behind the present Kirkton Farmhouse and near the burn is Priest’s Well. This well was the original water supply to the priory and is said to have been blessed by St Fillan but does not appear to have been dedicated to him. There is record of a site nearer the house which is now completely gone having also been called Priest’s Well. The botanist on hand the day we visited in June 2006 was helpful and knowledgeable about the properties history and took us to the well.
There are two wells recorded near this location. See Canmore ID 23863 for Priest's Well (Strathfillan) at NN 3604 2859 and Canmore ID 23844 which is for a cairn, 90 metres away, now know nto be a natural feature at NN 360 286.
Priests Holy Well is described as "a spring with carefully built stonework showing signs of great age. This is the old water supply to St. Fillan's Priory." The 1962 entry says that "according to the farmer Priest's Well is some 150m higher up the burn .... which of the two represent the Priest's Well could not be ascertained."
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