
What is recorded here
Scotland's National Record of the Historic Environment records Luing, Kilchattan Church as Church (20th Century) (1934). The official map says its point is accurate as follows: NGR given to the nearest 1m. The record does not by itself mean that the public may enter the place.
Kilchattan Church on Luing is associated with Saint Cathan (or Kathan), a 6th-century Irish monk and missionary linked to the spread of Christianity in Argyll. Traditionally, the church and surrounding area may have been sites of early Christian worship and pilgrimage, though specific cures or folklore connected to the site are not well documented.
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Places near here
Luing, War MemorialWar Memorial (20th Century) · 39 yd
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Luing, Achafolla MillWatermill (19th Century) · 409 yd
Dun AblaichArchaeological place · 861 yd
Luing, QuarrySlate Quarry (post Medieval) · 1046 yd
Luing Millennium CairnMemorial · 1734 yd
Nancy: Black Mill Bay, Luing, Sound of LuingSloop (19th Century) · 1.3 mi
Atlantic Islands CentreMuseum · 1.6 mi
Scoul EileanIslet · 1.7 mi
Druim na Dubh GhlaicMountain / peak · 1.8 mi
Aird LuingMountain / peak · 2.6 mi
Camas a' Mhòr-fhirBay · 2.8 miOther information
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