St Fillans is a village in Perthshire in the central highlands of Scotland, in the council area of Perth and Kinross. The village lies at the eastern end of Loch Earn, 5 miles (8 km) west of Comrie on the A85 road, at the point where the River Earn leaves the loch.[1] 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.[2]
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.[2] It is believed that the Irish missionary Saint Fillan lived on this hill.[2] 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:[2]
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.[3] The power station, which forms part of the Breadalbane Hydro-Electric 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 section of the River Earn from St Fillans down to Comrie, along with much of the surrounding countryside, is designated as a national scenic area (NSA).[4] It is one of 40 such areas in Scotland, which are defined to identify areas of exceptional scenery and to ensure its protection by restricting certain forms of development.[5] The River Earn (Comrie to St Fillans) NSA covers 12 square miles (3,108 ha) in total.[6]
The village became the scene of controversy in November 2005[7] when a housing development was halted to avoid killing the fairies who 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.[8]
St Fillans dragon from the side
On the A85 just to the east of St Fillans lies the St Fillans Dragon and the St Fillans Toad.[9]
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^"Map: River Earn (Comrie to St Fillans) National Scenic Area" (PDF). Scottish Natural Heritage. December 2010. Retrieved 21 May 2018.
^"National Scenic Areas". Scottish Natural Heritage. Retrieved 21 May 2018.
^"National Scenic Areas - Maps". SNH. 20 December 2010. Retrieved 21 May 2018.
^Pavia, Will; Windle, Chris (21 November 2005). "Fairies stop developers' bulldozers in their tracks". The Times. London. Retrieved 24 May 2010.
^James Moncur (22 February 2010). "Builder forced to design estate around rock.. because locals say fairies live under it". Daily Record.
^"Archibald Gibson Desert warfare veteran who had an eccentric career". The Herald. 18 April 2005.
StFillans is a village in Perthshire in the central highlands of Scotland, in the council area of Perth and Kinross. The village lies at the eastern end...
There was a monastery dedicated to St. Fillan as early as the 8th or 9th century at Strath Fillan in Perthshire. StFillans, Perthshire is a village at the...
as "Fillan's Spring", whose water was said to cure sore eyes. According to historian and antiquary William Forbes Skene, the village of StFillans, on...
Lochearnhead village is situated at the western end of the loch and St. Fillans village at the eastern end. From here, the River Earn flows eastwards...
given to the canons of Inchaffray Abbey in order to properly celebrate StFillan, a saint popular with the 14th century kings of Scotland. It had royal...
Bay, below Edinample Castle, the other at the east end of the loch, at StFillans, known as Neish Island. (Other submerged possible crannog sites also exist...
Lochearnhead in Perthshire. It opened in 1904 as part of the Comrie, StFillans & Lochearnhead Railway, but closed in 1951. Since 1962, the station has...
Oban or certain other towns served by C&OR. In 1903 the Lochearnhead, StFillans and Comrie Railway completed a link between Crieff and the C&OR Lochearnhead...
March 2022. Retrieved 31 March 2022. "StFillan's Cave". Gazetteer for Scotland. Retrieved 30 March 2023. "StFillans Cave". Welcome to Fife. Retrieved 30...
century), the Lismore Crozier (c. 1100), and the Scottish Coigreach and StFillan’s Crozier. The majority of surviving Insular croziers are held in the National...
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national park, and the westernmost part of the River Earn (Comrie to StFillans) NSA also lies within the park's boundaries. Additionally, there are two...
Earn (Scottish Gaelic: Uisge Èireann) in Scotland leaves Loch Earn at StFillans and runs east through Strathearn, then east and south, joining the River...
a lover left behind at Portmore, which William Tait identifies with (St. Fillans). (There is also a Portmore Loch in the Scottish Borders). While attributed...
Scottish Fisheries Museum, Scottish Seabird Centre, Seton Sands, St. Fillan's Cave, St. Monans Windmill Tantallon Castle, Torness Nuclear Power Station...
replaced an older church. The Roman Catholic Church is represented by StFillan's Chapel in Ford Road, as part of the Diocese of Dunkeld. Radio Earn broadcasts...
of Loch Etive, through Lochawe and Tyndrum, Crianlarich, Lochearnhead, StFillans and Crieff before passing through Perth, where it crosses the River Tay...
ISBN 9781909912960. "Our Lady and St Bean's Church, Marydale – Strathglass 'Pestered With Popery' & Knockfin". Parish of St Mary, Beauly. Retrieved 26 January...
a shield showing the burning bush, plus the Quigrich - the crozier of StFillan - behind the shield (with the curved head of the Quigrich visible above...
and Pitcairngreen), 15 (from Perth bus station to Crieff, Comrie and StFillans), 15A (from Perth bus station to Crieff, Braco, Dunblane and Stirling)...
(part) Loch Rannoch and Glen Lyon (part) Loch Tummel River Earn (Comrie to StFillans) River Tay (Dunkeld) Scottish Borders Eildon and Leaderfoot Upper Tweeddale...
coming to Perth markets over the route. This became the Lochearnhead, StFillans and Comrie Railway; due to serious problems raising capital, it took from...
name following an attempt to trademark the name of another NTS property (St Kilda) by a third party without their knowledge or consent. The Trust stated...
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