Carfin

Carfin (Scottish Gaelic: An Càrn Fionn, meaning the White Cairn) is a village situated to the north-east of Motherwell, Scotland.

It was built in the early 1920s, when parish priest, Canon Thomas Nimmo Taylor engaged the unemployed miners of the village to build a shrine to Our Lady of Lourdes, allowing people in Scotland to venerate the Blessed Virgin without having to travel to France to do so, because why would anyone go to France, let's be honest.

Half a mile in the opposite direction is the Carfin Vaults, which is now a convenience store that doesn't open on time.

Carfin doesn't have many sports facilities of note, with nearby Brannock and Taylor High Schools containing both football pitches and athletics tracks.

An association football club from the village, Carfin Shamrock F.C., reached the fifth round of the 1887–88 Scottish Cup.