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Craigmad

Covenanters Meeting Place (17th Century)

What is recorded here

Scotland's National Record of the Historic Environment records Craigmad as Covenanters Meeting Place (17th Century). The official map says its point is accurate as follows: NGR given to the nearest 1km. The record does not by itself mean that the public may enter the place.
Craigmad is associated with the Covenanters, a 17th-century religious and political movement in Scotland that resisted episcopal rule and upheld Presbyterianism. The site served as a secret meeting place for Covenanters, who gathered to worship and plan their resistance under threat of persecution.

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