Kilmartin
Sign in to saveKilmartin (, meaning "church of Màrtainn") is a small village in Argyll and Bute, western Scotland. It is best known as the centre of Kilmartin Glen, an area with one of the richest concentrations of prehistoric monuments and historical sites in Scotland. It contains over 800 monuments within a radius. It is home to Kilmartin Museum and the Kilmartin Hotel.
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- Locality
- Kilmartin
- Region
- Alba / Scotland
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Population
- 0
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Key facts
- UK place.gaelic_name
- Cille Mhàrtainn
- UK place.official_name
- Kilmartin
- UK place.static_image_name
- Kilmartin 006.jpg
- UK place.static_image_caption
- Kilmartin
- UK place.unitary_scotland
- Argyll and Bute
- UK place.lieutenancy_scotland
- Argyll and Bute
- UK place.constituency_westminster
- Argyll, Bute and South Lochaber
- UK place.constituency_scottish_parliament
- Argyll and Bute
- UK place.country
- Scotland
- UK place.os_grid_reference
- NR 834 999
- UK place.post_town
- Lochgilphead
- UK place.postcode_area
- PA
- UK place.postcode_district
- PA31
- UK place.dial_code
- 01546
- UK place.hide_services
- yes
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8 sectionsContents
- Kilmartin Parish Church
- Kilmartin Castle
- Kilmartin Museum
- Kilmartin Glen
- Moine Mhòr
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- References
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Kilmartin (, meaning "church of Màrtainn") is a small village in Argyll and Bute, western Scotland. It is best known as the centre of Kilmartin Glen, an area with one of the richest concentrations of prehistoric monuments and historical sites in Scotland. It contains over 800 monuments within a radius. It is home to Kilmartin Museum and the Kilmartin Hotel.
==Kilmartin Parish Church== thumb|left|Kilmartin Church Kilmartin Parish Church is a congregation of the Church of Scotland. The present church building was designed by architect James Gordon Davis and opened in 1835, though there had been earlier churches on the site. The churchyard has an important collection of early Christian and medieval carved stones, known as the Kilmartin Stones. Some are displayed within the parish church itself, others have been gathered into lapidaria within the graveyard, others still remain lying within it.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Kilmartin” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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