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
Fairy (Faery, 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)
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 (Deirdre and the Sons of Uisneach)
Falls of Lora (Loch Etive) – legend of Ossian and a cairn at Achnacree
Ossian’s Cave, Glen Coe
St Baodan’s Chapel on Loch Etive
Elsewhere in Argyll
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
Kilbrandon old church, Seil Island (Macmarquis’s Chin)
Kilbride Chapel (Kirk), Lerags – see also Lerags Cross
Kilmorie Chapel, Loch Fyne (Strathlachlan)
Kilneuair Chapel – St Columba’s Chapel of the Yews (Loch Awe)
Kintraw Standing Stone, above Loch Craignish
Kilvaree (St Maelrubha’s) chapel, 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, Seil island
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
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
Inverness and surrounding area
Beauly Priory
Clava Cairns
Craig Phadraig and its kings
Culloden
Sueno’s Stone
Urquhart Castle on Loch Ness
Sutherland and Caithness, 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
Scottish Borders and Dumfries & Galloway
Drumlanrig Castle
Dryburgh Abbey
Melrose Abbey
Jedburgh Abbey
Smailholm Tower
Sweetheart Abbey
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