Ardchattan and Muckairn
Template:Short description Template:Use British English Script error: No such module "Unsubst". 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.
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External links
- Priory Ruins
- Priory Artifacts
- The Priory of Ardchattan – Article in the Catholic Encyclopedia
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