Mull, Tobar Choluim-chille, Loch Buie
Well (Period Unassigned)
Site Name Mull, Tobar Choluim-chille, Loch Buie
Classification Well (Period Unassigned)
Canmore ID 22227
Site Number NM52SE 2
NGR NM 5910 2441
Datum OSGB36 - NGR
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- Council Argyll And Bute
- Parish Kilfinichen And Kilvickeon
- Former Region Strathclyde
- Former District Argyll And Bute
- Former County Argyll
NM52SE 2 5910 2441.
(Name: NM 5900 2435) Tobar Choluim-chille: A well, 1/4 ml E of An Sithean; the name means 'Calumkill's Well'. Nearby is Uamh a' Chrabhaiche - 'The cave of the devout person' (name: NM 5420 2427).
Name Book 1878.
NM 5910 2431. A natural spring issuing from the hillside. The cave was not located.
Visited by OS (D W R) 23 May 1972.
(NM 5910 2441) Tobar Choluim-chille (NAT)
(NM 5925 2425) Uamh a' Chrabhaiche (NAT)
OS 1:10,000 map, (1975)
Tobar Choluim Chille: This name ('St Columba's Well') applies to a small fresh-water spring situated immediately to the E of the old track from Lochbuie to Carsaig. The well, which is still in occasional use, may be the one at Loch Buie whose medicinal properties are mentioned in a late 17th-century topographical account of the area.
RCAHMS 1980, visited 1972.
