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  • In search of MacMarquis’s chin

    August 26, 2023 /

    According to tradition, this graveyard in Argyll once had quite an unusual guardian

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    Dunfermline Abbey (part 1): echoes of majesty

    November 13, 2015

    St Brendan and the Garvellachs

    February 24, 2012

    Sweetheart Abbey

    June 14, 2012
  • Old Castle Lachlan: loyalty and loss

    October 23, 2016 /

    Ghosts of horses tend to come in different guises, some of them benevolent and some of them more inclined towards the Apocalypse. The story that is linked with Old Castle Lachlan is moving and gentle, touched by the sadness of Culloden

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    The Govan Stones

    April 29, 2015

    St Margaret’s Chapel in Edinburgh Castle

    January 19, 2012

    The Tuilyies stones

    October 25, 2015
  • Kilmorie Chapel by Loch Fyne

    October 17, 2016 /

    Carpeted with moss, this ancient burial ground of the Maclachlans could hold distant echoes of an early saint

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    Saddell Abbey – in the footsteps of Somerled

    January 8, 2019

    The old chapel of Kilvaree

    June 24, 2018

    Melrose Abbey

    January 9, 2017

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Thomas Hardy, 'Under the Greenwood Tree'
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