Old Tour #Scotland #Ancestry Travel Visit #Genealogy #Scottish Family #History Blog #photography of Saint Ninian's Chapel, #Isle of #Whithorn in #Dumfries and #Galloway. The chapel was repaired and partly rebuilt in 1898 by the Marquess of Bute tour-scotland-photographs.blogspot.com/2017/10/old-...
Images of the exterior and interior of the roundhouse
Images of the exterior and interior of the roundhouse
Images of the exterior and interior of the roundhouse
Images of the exterior and interior of the roundhouse
#IronAge life brought to life! This #roundhouse built by the #Whithorn Trust in 2016 (Dumfries & Galloway), recreates a 450BC settlement from the Black Loch of Myrton using authentic materials & techniques. A rare glimpse into Scotland’s past!
#LivingHistory #AncientScotland #IronAgeWednesday
15/16 Sept: Feast Days of St Monenn of Cluain Conaire/ #Cloncurry, Co. #Kildare. Identified with St Ninian (d. 432); "Mo" term endearment added to Nenn. A Briton who studied in Rome. Founder of #Whithorn, Galloway, #Scotland. Apostle of Southern Picts! 📷Monreith Cross & Whithorn Priory
Our next Biosphere Community pop-up event is in #Whithorn on Tues 02/09. Come along to find out more about the Galloway & Southern Ayrshire UNESCO Biosphere, what it is and what the GSA Biosphere Partnership does locally and internationally! (And in case you can't make it: www.gsabiosphere.org.uk)
Cruggleton Church. The image shows a view over a field that slopes gently uphill to the right. In its centre is an enclosure surrounded by a high stone wall and within that are lots of trees, not in leaf, and the shape of a church within the trees. The scene is in sunlight.
Some buildings seem to give off feelings. For us, Cruggleton Church, near Whithorn in Dumfries & Galloway, is one of the most forbidding and unsettling places we've visited. More pics and info: www.undiscoveredscot...
#Scotland #CruggletonChurch #Church #DumfriesAndGalloway #Whithorn
Green Health workshops are available to book now in #Whithorn #NewGalloway #Glentrool and #Ochiltree (with a bit of Blue Health in there too). Free to attend and open to all - join us to explore the range of local opportunities for finding #wellbeing in nature.
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A fantastic episode of BB Radio Scotland's #OutOfDoors featuring the Biosphere Community of #Whithorn plus several of our Proud Supporters & Biosphere Certification Mark awardees (plus birds, belties, and last but not least our Gold-Tier International Dark Sky Park!).
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#Whithorn Trust Tearoom is the place to go if you’re in SW Scotland - good food, kind people and helping the charitable trust protect historic buildings
#Whithorn #Kirkcudbright ##DumfriesAndGalloway 📽️🏴
📢 Coming up from the D&G Climate Hub with support from @solwayfp.bsky.social next month in the Biosphere Community of #Whithorn - this event is FREE with transport available:
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#climateaction #netzeronation #Flipflopi
I notice, with a small thrill of euphonious pleasure, that the main watercourses in #Whithorn are called The Ket and the Stirnie Birnie Burn.
