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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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    White frost and winter light

    December 16, 2022

    Dunstaffnage Chapel – haunted by sadness

    June 26, 2015
    Beauly Priory

    Beauly Priory

    April 4, 2026
  • 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 old pinewoods in Glen Orchy

    October 17, 2025

    The Stone of Scone

    July 12, 2012

    Camas nan Geall: ‘the Bay of the Strangers’

    July 20, 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

    Dunfermline Abbey (part 1): echoes of majesty

    November 13, 2015

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