Monument record 489 - TOBAR NA CILLE, ST KILDA

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St Brendan's well

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Grid reference NF 09770 98400 (point)
Map sheet NF09NE
Parish HARRIS, Western Isles

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NF09NE 6 0977 9840.

(NF 0977 9840) Tobar na Gille (NAT)
OS 6"map, annotated by J Mathieson (1928)

Tobar na Gille or St Brendan's Well, an open spring, was once used by the St Kildans to seek a favourite wind to take them to Harris.
J Mathieson 1928.

A natural spring: no signs of it ever having been covered.
Visited by OS (J L D) 7 August 1967.


J Mathieson, 1927-8, Proc Soc Antiq Scot, 124-5 fig. 1 (Bibliographic reference). SWE5190.

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  • --- Bibliographic reference: J Mathieson. 1927-8. Proc Soc Antiq Scot. 62. 123-32. 124-5 fig. 1.

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Jul 28 2005 2:24PM

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