- St Fillans
St Fillans is a village in the central highlands ofScotland , in the district ofPerth and Kinross .It lies at the eastern end of
Loch Earn , 6km west ofComrie on theA85 road . St Fillans was a smallclachan 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 Irishmissionary 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 atLoch Lednock high above the village. The power station, which forms part of theBreadalbane Hydro-Electric Power Scheme , is not visible within St Fillans as it is underground and was hewn from solid rock. Thegolf 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 andSt 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 theSecond Statistical Account of 1845
* [http://www.corestore.org/StFillans.htm St. Fillans power station]
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