Ardchattan and Muckairn is a

civil parish In England, a civil parish is a type of administrative parish used for local government. It is a territorial designation which is the lowest tier of local government. Civil parishes can trace their origin to the ancient system of parishes, w ...

within

Argyll and Bute Argyll and Bute (; , ) is one of 32 unitary authority, unitary council areas of Scotland, council areas in Scotland and a lieutenancy areas of Scotland, lieutenancy area. The current lord-lieutenant for Argyll and Bute is Jane Margaret MacLeod ...

in Scotland. It lies north of

Oban Oban ( ; meaning ''The Little Bay'') is a resort town within the Argyll and Bute council area of Scotland. Despite its small size, it is the largest town between Helensburgh and Fort William, Highland, Fort William. During the tourist seaso ...

, bordering

Loch Etive Loch Etive (Scottish Gaelic language, Scottish Gaelic, ''Loch Eite'') is a 30 Kilometre, km loch, sea loch in Argyll and Bute, Scotland. It reaches the sea at Connel, 5 km north of Oban. It measures 31.6 km (19 miles) long and fr ...

and includes Glen Ure, Glen Creran, Barcaldine, Benderloch, Connel, Bonawe and

Glen Etive Glen Etive () is a glen in the Scottish Highlands. The River Etive () rises on the peaks surrounding Rannoch Moor, with several tributary streams coming together at the Kings House Hotel, at the head of Glen Coe. From the Kings House, the Etiv ...

. At the 2001 census, Ardchattan and Muckairn had a population of 2,443, between them. Its name derives from the 6th-century Irish monk

Saint Cathan Saint Cathan, also known as Catan, Cattan, etc., was a 6th-century Irish monk revered as a saint in parts of the Scottish Hebrides. Source material This saint appears in the '' Aberdeen Breviary'', Walter Bower's ''Scotichronicon'', and the ...

, combined with the Goidelic element ''ard-'', or "heights". In the past Ardchattan has been co-joined with its neighbouring parish of Muckairn, on the other side of

. Its most famous landmark is Ardchattan Priory, founded as a Valliscaulian priory around the year 1230. After the second world war the then owner Lieutenant-Colonel Robert (Bobby) Modan Thorne Campbell-Preston married the hospital administrator and widow Angela Murray in 1950. Their daughter, Sarah, was born in 1951. The priory's ruins and surrounding gardens are now open to the public.

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Priory Artifacts

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Catholic Encyclopedia ''The'' ''Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the Constitution, Doctrine, Discipline, and History of the Catholic Church'', also referred to as the ''Old Catholic Encyclopedia'' and the ''Original Catholic Encyclopedi ...

Geography of Argyll and Bute Parishes in Argyll {{Argyll-geo-stub

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