James VI and the Gowrie mystery . Photo: W. J. Hay, Edinburgh p. 150. RESTALRIG HOUSE. Photo: W. J. Hay, Edinburgh p. 150. RESTALRIG VILLAGE LOGAN OF RESTALRIG 151 back three hundred years in time. On the right handof the road, walking eastward, what looks like a hugeo-reen mound is visible above a hio-h ancient wall. This O CJ is all that is left of St. Triduanas Chapel, and shewas a saint who came from Achaia with St. Eegulus,the mythical founder of St. Andrews. She died atEestalrig on October 8, 510, and may have convertedthe Celts, who then dwelt in a crannog in the loch ; atall events we
James VI and the Gowrie mystery . Photo: W. J. Hay, Edinburgh p. 150. RESTALRIG HOUSE. Photo: W. J. Hay, Edinburgh p. 150. RESTALRIG VILLAGE LOGAN OF RESTALRIG 151 back three hundred years in time. On the right handof the road, walking eastward, what looks like a hugeo-reen mound is visible above a hio-h ancient wall. This O CJ is all that is left of St. Triduanas Chapel, and shewas a saint who came from Achaia with St. Eegulus,the mythical founder of St. Andrews. She died atEestalrig on October 8, 510, and may have convertedthe Celts, who then dwelt in a crannog in the loch ; atall events we hear that, in a very dry summer, thetimbers of a crannog were found in the sandy depositof the lake margin. The chapel (or chapter-house ?),very dirty and disgracefully neglected, has probably acrypt under it, and certainly possesses a beautifulgroined roof, springing from a single short pillar inthe centre. The windows are blocked up with stones,the exterior is a mere mound of grass like a sepulchraltumulus. On the floor lies, broken, the gravestoneof a Lady Eestalrig who died in
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