Perthshire's Mysterious Sites -------------Hauntings------------ Ashintully Castle Ballechin House Huntingtower Castle Killiecrankie Newton Castle Meggernie Castle ---------------Major Sites----------- Doon Hill Schiehallion ---------------Folklore----------- St Fillan's Chair ---------------Ancient Sites----------- Cleaven Dyke Inchmahome Priory Home Site Map Perthshire Map England Map Scotland Map Wales Map Inchmahome Priory Inchmahome is a ruined Augustine priory situated on an island in the middle of Lake Menteith. Walter Comyn the Earl of Menteith founded the Priory in the thirteenth century. The Priory had a number of important visitors during its occupation, including Robert the Bruce and Mary Queen of Scots, who was brought here as a young girl for her own safety after the battle of Pinkie in 1547. There are a few legends associated with the priory, within Nun's Hill near the centre of the island, a nun from the priory is reputed to have been buried upright because of her sinful nature. She fell in love with a swarthy clan chief, who had planned to elope with her but was killed in battle. As he died from his wounds he confessed to a priest of the love he shared with the nun. The priest journeyed to the island and waited for the nun to appear in her lovers meeting place. When she arrived he grabbed her, and overcome with religious zeal promptly drowned her, uniting her with her lover in death. The seeds (conkers) of the chestnut trees on the island are also said to have been specially brought from Rome. The area is also associated associated with fairy lore, a sandbank of land called the Arnmach, which extends into the lake pointing like a finger to the island from the Southern shore, was traditionaly created by the fairies while they were tasked with creating a rope of sand. Map ref: NN 5701 Directions: A boat boat ferries passengers 12 at a time to the priory from the Port of Menteith, on the B8034 off the A81.