Ardchattan and Muckairn

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. At the 2001 census, Ardchattan and Muckairn had a population of 2,443, between them. Its name derives from the 6th-century Irish monk Saint Cathan, combined with the Goidelic element ard-, or "heights".

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 1230.

After the second world war the then owner Lieutenant-Colonel Robert (Bobby) Modan Thorne Campbell-Preston married the hospital administrator and widow Angela Murray in 1950. Their daughter, Sarah, was born in 1951.

The priory's ruins and surrounding gardens are now open to the public.

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Footnotes

  1. ↑ 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.
  2. ↑ "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.
  3. ↑ Mackinlay, James Murray (1904). Influence of the Pre-Reformation Church on Scottish Place-names. W. Blackwood. p. 322. Retrieved 12 January 2010.
  4. ↑ "Lt-Col Robert Campbell-Preston". The Herald. 20 June 1996. Retrieved 29 June 2024.
  5. ↑ 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

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