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in 1596 by Munro, Dean of the Isles, were till lately to be 

 seen north of the cave, marked by an old hawthorn, and 

 beside a bury ing-ground, which was long used as the chief 

 place of sepulture for Arran, till the loss of life by the 

 upsetting of a boat. A pure spring of water close by the 

 cave the saint's well was long famous for its supposed 

 healing qualities. 



Returning to Lamlash, we may examine the ruins of the 

 old parish church of Kilbride, on the north-east side of the 

 village, which, though without any architectural beauty, has 

 some monuments of interest, but of which nothing is known. 

 The summit level of the road to Brodick is marked by four 

 granite blocks enclosing a circular space, used as a place of 

 ancient sepulture, to which allusion will be made in the 

 sequel, in connection with an account of the Tormore Circles. 

 A few yards south of it there is an upright stone of coarse 

 conglomerate, about four feet high, and others near it now 

 prostrate, all apparently portions of a former circle. 



Fig. 29. 



