St Fillans

St Fillans

St Fillans is a village in the central highlands of Scotland, in the district of Perth and Kinross.

It lies at the eastern end of Loch Earn, 6km west of Comrie on the A85 road. St Fillans was a small clachan in the 18th century, known as Port of Lochearn, or Meikleport. In 1817 it was renamed St Fillans by Lord Gwydyr, the husband of Clementina Drummond, heiress to the Drummond Estate.

The pre-Reformation church, St Fillan's Chapel, whose kirkyard is the traditional burial place of the Stewarts of Ardvorlich, lies to the south of the River Earn, between St Fillans and the iron age Pictish hill fort of Dundurn. It is believed that the Irish missionary Saint Fillan lived on this hill. Not far from the foot of the hill is the Allt Ghoinean burn which is claimed to be the Gonan or Monan of Sir Walter Scott's poem "The Lady of the Lake":

:"The stag at eve had drunk his fill, where danced the moon on Monan's rill".

There is a large hydro-electric power station in St Fillans, fed from a dam at Loch Lednock high above the village. The power station, which forms part of the Breadalbane Hydro-Electric Power Scheme, is not visible within St Fillans as it is underground and was hewn from solid rock. The golf course at St Fillans was created in 1903 by Willie Auchterlonie.

The village became the scene of controversy in November 2005 [cite news|url=http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2-1881612,00.html|publisher=The Times|title=Fairies stop developers' bulldozers in their tracks|date=November 21, 2005] when a housing development was halted to avoid killing the fairies which allegedly lived under a rock on the proposed site.After some negotiation the new housing estate was redesigned so that the rock in question was preserved, in a small park in the centre of the estate.

On the A85 just to the east of St Fillans you'll find the St Fillans Dragon and St Fillans Toad

References

External links

* [http://www.geo.ed.ac.uk/scotgaz/towns/townfirst1216.html Gazetteer of Scotland]
* [http://stat-acc-scot.edina.ac.uk/link/1834-45/Perth/Comrie/ Parish of Comrie] in the Second Statistical Account of 1845
* [http://www.corestore.org/StFillans.htm St. Fillans power station]


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