Early Travellers

As the centuries passed, our valley, cut by the glacier, formed a corridor across Scotland. Many travellers were to come along it. The earliest Christian missionaries made use of it and there is good evidence that St. Ciaran, an Irish missionary of the pre-Columban period, had a cell at
Fearnan where his name is still recalled in the placename, Dalchiaran. Of great interest is the Holy water stone turned up by the plough on the traditional site of his chapel. This stone can be seen in the road-side wall on
the west side of the road, a hundred yards south of the village hall at Fearnan.

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