Ardchattan and Muckairn is a civil parish within Argyll and Bute in Scotland. It lies north of Oban, bordering Loch Etive and includes Glen Ure, Glen Creran, Barcaldine, Benderloch, Connel, Bonawe and Glen Etive.[1] At the 2001 census, Ardchattan and Muckairn had a population of 2,443, between them.[2] Its name derives from the 6th-century Irish monk Saint Cathan, combined with the Goidelic element ard-, or "heights".[3]
In the past Ardchattan has been co-joined with its neighbouring parish of Muckairn, on the other side of Loch Etive. Its most famous landmark is Ardchattan Priory, founded as a Valliscaulian priory around the year 1230.
After the second world war the then owner Lieutenant-Colonel Robert (Bobby) Modan Thorne Campbell-Preston[4] married the hospital administrator and widow Angela Murray in 1950. Their daughter, Sarah, was born in 1951.[5]
The priory's ruins and surrounding gardens are now open to the public.
See also
editFootnotes
edit- ^ Jill Bowis, Ardchattan Parish Archive. "Ardchattan – A study of the social, natural and physical history". Archived from the original on 25 June 2009. Retrieved 4 August 2009.
- ^ "Usual Resident Population: Ardchattan and Muckairn". Scotland's Census Results OnLine. General Register Office for Scotland. Archived from the original on 4 April 2012. Retrieved 31 May 2011.
- ^ Mackinlay, James Murray (1904). Influence of the Pre-Reformation Church on Scottish Place-names. W. Blackwood. p. 322. Retrieved 12 January 2010.
- ^ "Lt-Col Robert Campbell-Preston". The Herald. 20 June 1996. Retrieved 29 June 2024.
- ^ Moss, Michael S. (13 June 2024), "Preston [née Pearson; other married name Murray], Angela Campbell- (1910–1981), businesswoman, landowner, and conservationist", Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, doi:10.1093/odnb/9780198614128.013.63965, ISBN 978-0-19-861412-8, retrieved 28 June 2024
External links
edit- Priory Ruins
- Priory Artifacts
- The Priory of Ardchattan – Article in the Catholic Encyclopedia
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