Tyndrum / Taigh an Druim

INFORMATION

FontID: 16969TYN
Church/Chapel: Priory Church [in ruins]
Country Name: Scotland
Location: Stirling
Directions to Site: Located 26 km E of Oban; the ruins of the priory church are no on Kirkton Farm
Font Location in Church: [cf. FontNotes]
Century and Period: , Medieval
Rees (2003) mentions a font from the old priory church, a font in which "deranged people" were made to put their heads, as the waters were said to cure insanity [only ruins remain of the old priory church; the font itself probably disappeared a long time ago]

MEDIUM AND MEASUREMENTS

Material: stone

REFERENCES

Rees, Elizabeth, An essential guide to Celtic sites and their saints, London; New York: Burns & Oates, 2003