Healing pool in the River Fillan (Dochart) associated with Irish Early Christian missionary St Fillan who built a chapel here in Strathfillan.

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Deep, healing pool in the River Fillan (Dochart) associated with Irish Early Christian missionary St Fillan who built a chapel here. Robert the Bruce established a priory nearby in the C14th in Fillan's honour & carried his arm relic to victory at the Battle of Bannockburn. Up to the early 1800s the healing pool, priory remains & St Fillan's bell (the Bernane) were used in cures for madness (mentally ill were cast into pool from a rock platform) but the pool lost its powers after a bull was thrown in. Alder pollen forms a swirl on the surface of the water during a time exposure. On the West Highland Way.

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Size: 3886px × 4961px
Location: St Fillan's Priory, Kirkton Farm, Auchreoch, Strath Fillan, Stirling, Central, Scotland, U
Photo credit: © Mick Sharp / Alamy / Afripics
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