Index
This is a work in progress. Please bear with me while I complete it –– Jo
Argyll: Kilmartin Glen
Achnabreac (Achnabreck) – cup-and-ring marked stones
Ballymeanoch Stones
Baroile and Rhudil Cairns
– see Rhudil
Carnassarie (Carnasserie) Castle
Cairnbaan – cup-and-ring marked stones
Dunadd
Dunchraigaig Cairn
Dunchraigaig Cairn – deer carving
Kilmartin Bronze Age Cairns (linear cemetery)
Kilmartin Church and Graveyard
Nether Largie South Cairn
Nether Largie Stones
Ormaig – cup-and-ring marked stones
Rhudil: Kilbride (St Bride’s) Chapel and Baroile and Rhudil Cairns
Ri Cruin Cairn
Temple Wood stone circles
Argyll: Knapdale and Kintyre
Arichonan – abandoned settlement
Barnakill – abandoned settlement
Carse standing stones – a battlefield and a witch’s leap
Castle Dounie
Castle Sween
Dunaverty – hill fort and St Columba’s footprints
Faery (Fairy, Faerie) Isles, Loch Coille Bharr
Keills Chapel
Kilberry sculptured stones
Kilmahumaig, Dun Domhnuill, Dun Mor and New York, Crinan
Kilmory Knap Chapel part one
Kilmory Knap Chapel part two
Kilmory Mill, Loch Coille Bharr
Kilmory Oib – abandoned settlement and cross-carved stone, Loch Coille Bharr
Kilmory Oib – enclosure with standing stones
Loch Sween – Daltot cross-carved stone and graveyard
Loch Sween – looking for a fairy portal
Saddell Abbey and Castle
Stronefield – abandoned settlement and Jacobite’s cave
Tarbert Castle and Viking portage
Torinturk – cairns and fort (dun)
Argyll: Glen Coe, Glen Etive and Loch Etive
Ardchattan Priory on Loch Etive
Ardchattan: the Yew of Easragan
Ballachulish – chapel
Ballachulish – St John’s Church
Beregonium (Dun mac Uisneachan, Dun mac Sniachan) – Deirdre and the Sons of Uisneach
Falls of Lora, Loch Etive – Ossian’s legend of Fingal, Carthon and Clessammor, and Ossian’s Cairn at Achnacree
Ossian’s Cave, Glen Coe
St Baodan’s Chapel on Loch Etive
Elsewhere in Argyll
Butter Bridge, Glen Kinglas
Caisteal nan Coin Duibh (Castle of the Black Dogs), Craignish
Caisteal na Nighinn Ruaidh (Castle of the Red-haired Girl), Loch Avich
––The Road to Loch Avich
Carraig nam Marbh (The Rock of the Dead) Loch Feochan – see also Glen Lonan
Castle Lachlan, Loch Fyne
Castle Stalker, Loch Laich
Dail nan Ceann (The Field of the Heads), Craignish
Deer Stone, Glen Domhain
Diarmuid’s (Diarmaid’s, Diarmid’s) Pillar or Clach na Carraig, Glen Lonan – see also Strontoiller
Dunollie Castle, Oban Bay
Dunstaffnage Castle
Dunstaffnage Chapel
Fincharn Castle, Loch Awe
Glen Lonan and the Road of the Kings – see also Carraig nam Marbh
Inveraray Cross
Kilbrandon old church, Seil Island (Macmarquis’s Chin)
Kilbride Chapel (Kirk), Lerags – see also Lerags Cross
Kilmore chapel, near Oban
Kilmorie Chapel, Loch Fyne (Strathlachlan)
Kilneuair Chapel (St Columba’s Chapel of the Yews), Loch Awe
Kilvaree (St Maelrubha’s) chapel, Loch Craignish
Kintraw Standing Stone, above Loch Craignish
Lerags Cross – see also Kilbride Chapel, Lerags
Port Appin and Oban coastal arches and stacks (Clach Tholl, Clach a’Choin or Dog Stone)
Port Mhic Isaaic, Craignish
St Brendan’s Seat and standing stones, near Kilninver
St Conan’s Kirk, Loch Awe
Standing stone by Loch Ederline near Ford
Strontoiller stone circle and Diarmuid’s Pillar, Glen Lonan
(Diarmuid and Grainne)
Tomb of the Giants and the Serpent Mound, Loch Nell
Watchman Stone, Craignish
ISLANDS
Garvellachs
St Brendan and the Garvellachs
Garvellachs – souterrain
Back to the Garvellachs
Gigha
Iona
Dun I and the Well of Eternal Youth
Nunnery
St Columba’s Bay
Islay and Jura
Corryvreckan whirlpool
Dunyvaig Castle, Islay
Glengarrisdale, Jura – Maclaine’s Skull
––Glengarrisdale and Maclaine’s Skull – a mystery re-exhumed
Kerrera
Gylen Castle and the Brooch of Lorn
Lewis and Harris
Calanais (Callanish) – 2009
––Calanais – 2025
Dun Carloway broch
The Lewis Chessmen
Lismore
Castle Coeffin
St Moluag’s Cathedral
Tirefuir (Tirefour) broch
Luing
Kilchattan Chapel: Alexander II and the ghosts of his galleys
MacCormaig Isles
Mull
Duart Castle
Fossils at Carsaig Bay
Glen More and the headless horseman
Kilvickeon chapel
Loch Buie stone circle and Moy Castle
Orkney
St Magnus’ Cathedral
The Brough of Birsay
The Earl’s Bu and some eventful Christmas feasts
The Ring of Brodgar
The Stones of Stenness
Skye
Claigan beach
Dun Beag (broch)
Dunvegan Castle
––Dunvegan Castle: The Fairy Flag
Treshnish Isles
OTHER REGIONS
Aberdeenshire
Dunnottar Castle
Poldullie Bridge, Strathdon
Angus
Ardnamurchan, Morvern, Lochaber and Lochalsh
Ardnamurchan’s volcano
Caisteal nan Con (Castle of the Dogs) and Clach na Criche, Morvern
Camas nan Geall and Cladh Chiarain, Ardnamurchan
Glenelg brochs: Dun Telve and Dun Troddan
Glen Roy – Parallel Roads
Glen Roy – Winter Trees
Greadal Fhinn (chambered cairn), Kilchoan, Ardnamurchan
Inverlochy Castle, Fort William
Prince’s Cairn and Cave, Loch nan Uamh
Caithness and Sutherland, including Assynt, Easter and Wester Ross
Bone Caves of Inchnadamph
Clachtoll Broch
Hill o’ Many Stanes
Kyle of Tongue, including Caisteal Bharraich or Castle Varrich
Plant hunting in Sutherland
East and West Lothian
Athelstaneford Doocot – battle and legend of Scotland’s saltire
Blackness Castle
St Andrew’s Auld Kirk, North Berwick
St Michael’s Church, Linlithgow
Seacliff harbour
Tantallon Castle
Tantallon Castle – a 15th century ring
Torphichen Preceptory
Torphichen Preceptory and Cairnpapple Hill (dowsing)
Edinburgh
Holyrood Abbey
Holyrood Palace
St Giles’ Cathedral, Edinburgh
St Margaret’s Chapel, Edinburgh Castle
Fife
Culross Abbey
Culross Palace
Dunfermline Abbey part one
Dunfermline Abbey part two
Falkland Palace
Falkland Palace – Royal Tennis Court
St Andrews Cathedral
St Andrews Cathedral: St Rule’s Tower
St Andrews – ghosts
St Andrews – St Mary’s College
Tuilyies standing stones
Glasgow
Inverness and surrounding area
Beauly Priory
Clava Cairns
Craig Phadraig and its kings
Culloden
Loch an Eilein Castle
Sueno’s Stone (Pictish)
Urquhart Castle on Loch Ness
Perthshire and Kinross
Bridge in the Sma’ Glen
Carnbane Castle, Glen Lyon
Cockstane (Clach na Coileach) and Clan MacThomas, Glen Shee
Croft Moraig stone circle
Doune Castle
Dunkeld Cathedral
Dupplin Cross, St Serf’s, Dunning (Pictish)
Fortingall Stone Circles
Fowlis Wester – Pictish stones
Inchbuie (Innis Bhuidhe), Killin – MacNab graveyard
Innerpeffray Library
Killiecrankie
––Autumn colours in Killiecrankie
Loch Katrine (Ellen’s Isle)
Loch Leven Castle
St Adamnan’s Cross, Glen Lyon
Stone of Scone (Stone of Destiny)
Tullibardine Chapel
Scottish Borders and Dumfries & Galloway
Drumlanrig Castle
Dryburgh Abbey
Kelso: two stone arches and inscription, Spottiswoode, near Gordon
Melrose Abbey
Jedburgh Abbey
Smailholm Tower
Sweetheart Abbey
Stirling and surrounding area
Cambuskenneth Abbey
Loch Dochart Castle
St Bride’s, Callander (Mackinlay/Mackinley graveyard)
––St Bride’s Revisited
––St Bride’s: a history worth saving
Stirling Castle